One who administers baptism; -- specifically applied to John, the forerunner of Christ.

One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion. See Anabaptist.

a branch of the Church marked off by belief in the indepen­dence of the local gathered church to which the individual is admitted of profession of faith as a mature adult through total immersion.

of or pertaining to or characteristic of the Baptist church; "Baptist baptismal practices"; "a Baptist minister"

an individual who has experienced salvation through personal faith in Jesus Christ

One who does not believe in the divinity of a Methodist.

Baptist is a term describing a tradition within Christianity and may also refer to individuals belonging to a Baptist church or a Baptist denomination. The tradition takes it name from the conviction that followers of Jesus Christ should be immersed in water as a visible and public display of their faith. Some regard Baptists as a continuation of the movement dating back to the time of Jesus and John the Baptist, who baptized Jesus in the River Jordan.