I. |anə|- noun
( -s )
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: New Latin anabaptista, from Late Greek anabaptizein + Latin -ista -ist
: a Protestant sectarian associated with a radical movement which made its appearance in the 16th century rejecting infant baptism and insisting on believer's baptism and advocating complete religious liberty, the separation of church and state, opposition to military service, and religious communalism
II. adjective
or an·a·bap·tis·tic | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷
Usage: usually capitalized
: of, relating to, or characteristic of the Anabaptists or their doctrine and practice
• an·a·bap·tis·ti·cal·ly -tə̇k(ə)lē adverb