| 单词 | adult baptism |
| 释义 | > as lemmasadult baptism adult baptism n. the christening of an adult, or one who has reached the age of discretion, esp. as practised by a church or sect that maintains baptism should only be administered to believing adults (as the Anabaptists, Mennonites, etc.); opposed to infant baptism. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > baptism > kinds of baptism > adult > [noun] after-baptism1614 adult baptism1646 after-baptizing1680 1646 J. Tombes Apol. Two Treat. Infant-baptisme 53 Those Ministers and people that cannot agree about the validity of Infant-baptisme, or adult-baptisme. 1789 E. Williams Antipœdobaptism Examined II. 117 The practice of adult baptism in the same congregation. 1832 J. Chadwick New Light on Christian Baptism i. ii. 13 As an example of adult baptism merely, it reflects light upon the present question. 1905 Polit. Sci. Q. 20 108 It could not admit that adult baptism was wrong, that paedo-baptism was right, without breaking so completely with its past that sympathy could not reach round the break. 2000 A. Mason in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 81/1 These Brethren fall between Anabaptists and Pietists. They practise adult baptism. < as lemmas |
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