anabaptize

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek [Term?] (“again”) + [Term?] (“to baptize”). See baptize and Anabaptist.

Verb

anabaptize (third-person singular simple present anabaptizes, present participle anabaptizing, simple past and past participle anabaptized)

  1. (transitive, archaic) To baptize or christen again; to rename.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for anabaptize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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