a. and sb. [f. Baxter + -IAN.] A. adj. Of or pertaining to Richard Baxter, the eminent Puritan divine, or his doctrines. B. sb. One who holds Baxter’s tenets. Baxterianism, Baxter’s doctrines, one special point of which was the amalgamation of the Arminian doctrine of free grace with the Calvinistic doctrine of election.
1835. in Penny Cycl., IV. 62/1.
1839. Sir J. Stephen, Eccl. Biogr., 44. Baxter was opposed to every sect, and belonged to none. He can be properly described only as a Baxterian.
