? Obs. [f. ANABAPTIST + -RY.]
1. The doctrine or system of Anabaptists.
1553–87. Foxe, A. & M. (1596), 1888/1. Called before the Margraue, and charged with Anabaptistry.
1651. Baxter, Inf. Bapt., 143. Anabaptistry … set out neer the same time and place with Luther’s Reformation.
1709. Chandler, Effort agst. Bigotry, 14. ’Tis not the espousing the Interest of Diocesan Episcopacy … Independency or Anabaptistry, that will make a good Man of a bad.
† 2. Repetition of baptism, or transf. of any ceremony. Obs.
1659. Heylin, Animadv., in Fuller, Appeal (1840), 461. King Henry … would not be twice married to the same woman; that being a kind of bigamy, or Anabaptistry in marriage.
