baptist

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)An adherent of a Protestant denomination (or various subdenominations) of Christianity, which believes in the baptism of believers (sometimes only adults), as opposed to the baptism of infants.
2. A person who baptizes.

adj

1. Of, relating to, or adhering to the Baptist religious denomination.

   “One of the village's most notable sons was Thomas Grantham, a Baptist church leader born in 1634, who was persecuted and imprisoned in the struggle for nonconformist beliefs during the reign of Charles II.”