Bible dictionaries
Baptist
What Bible dictionaries say about “Baptist”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Baptist - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
BAP'TIST, n. One who administers baptism. This appellation is appropriately given to John, the forerunner of Christ.
2. As a contraction of Anabaptist, one who denies the doctrine of infant baptism, and maintains that baptism ought to be administered only to adults by immersing the body in water.
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)
bap'-tist.
See JOHN THE BAPTIST.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915