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English
Etymology
From cata- + baptist.
Noun
Catabaptist (plural Catabaptists)
- (obsolete) One who opposes baptism.
c. 1644, Daniel Featley, The Dippers Dipt, Or, the Anabaptists Duck'd and Plung'd Over Head and Ears, at a Disputation in Southwark:A Catabaptist may sometimes be no Anabaptist, such as was Leo Copronymus, who defiled the Font at his baptisme,
References
“Catabaptist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.