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Definition of Baptisteries
1. baptistery [n] - See also: baptistery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Baptisteries
Literary usage of Baptisteries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Baptism: From Inspired and Uninspired Writings by Isaac Taylor Hinton (1849)
"baptisteries," says Mr. Robinson, " are first to be sought where they are ...
At this time baptisteries began to be built; but there were none within the ..."
2. The Works of the Rev. Joseph Bingham by Joseph Bingham (1855)
"All that I have further to add about baptisteries here, is an observation made
by some ... baptisteries anciently more peculiar to the mother- church. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1893)
"No one of the baptisteries of this period baa come down to the present time in
a more unaltered condition than that of the Cathedral of Ravenna, known, ..."
4. The Baptist Quarterly Review by J R Baumes, Robert Stuart MacArtur, Henry C Vedder (1887)
"The subject was a favorite one with Dr. Cutting, and it is believed that these
results of his personal examination of ancient baptisteries have a permanent ..."
5. A Brief History of the Baptists and Their Distinctive Principles and by William Cecil Duncan (1855)
"First Baptisms in Rivers, Pools, and Baths—baptisteries introduced in the Fourth
Century—Description of a Baptistery—Names applied to the Building—Object of ..."
6. A History of the Modes of Christian Baptism: From Holy Scripture, the by James Chrystal (1861)
"baptisteries. ANCIENT BAPTISMAL RITES. Besides, there is a proverb about " casting
pearls," &c. Of course where there is every probability that everything ..."
7. The Alliance of Divine Offices by Hamon L'Estrange (1846)
"baptisteries when erected, the Directory feb de se, (E) Sanctifying of water,
... Many baptized in the same baptisteries. Women and men had several rooms in ..."
8. Origines Ecclesiasticæ: Or, The Antiquities of the Christian Church, and by Joseph Bingham, Richard Bingham (1840)
"We may observe, also, in the forementioned authors, how the baptisteries were
... But the baptisteries might also have this name for another reason, ..."
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