Associations to the word «Anabaptist»

Wiktionary

ANABAPTIST, noun. (1811) A pickpocket caught in the act, and punished with the discipline of the pump or horse-pond.
ANABAPTIST, noun. A member of a radical wing of Christians during the Protestant Reformation (such as a Mennonite, an Amish person, a Hutterite).
ANABAPTIST, noun. A member of any of several present-day churches.

Dictionary definition

ANABAPTIST, noun. Adherent of Anabaptism.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats