Baptizer

[f. as prec. + -ER¹.] One who baptizes; occas. used of John the Baptist.

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1483. Cath. Angl., 20/1. A baptizer, baptista.

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1548. Udall, etc., Erasm. Par. Matt. iii. 14. Did refuse the office of a baptiser.

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1645. Pagitt, Heresiogr. (1661), 40. The Baptizer and the party baptized go both into the Rivers.

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1865. Gentl. Mag., CCXVIII. 84. The Baptizer signified that he was not worthy to have been even the forerunner of the Saviour.

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