资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Sabbatarian \Sab`ba*ta"ri*an\, n. [L. Sabbatarius: cf. F.
sabbataire. See {Sabbath}.]
1. One who regards and keeps the seventh day of the week as
holy, agreeably to the letter of the fourth commandment in
the Decalogue.
Note: There were Christians in the early church who held this
opinion, and certain Christians, esp. the {Seventh-day
Baptists}, hold it now.
2. A strict observer of the Sabbath.
Seventh \Sev"enth\, a. [From {Seven}: cf. AS. seofo[eth]a.]
1. Next in order after the sixth;; coming after six others.
On the seventh day, God ended his work which he had
made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his
work which he had made. --Gen. ii. 2.
2. Constituting or being one of seven equal parts into which
anything is divided; as, the seventh part.
{Seventh day}, the seventh day of the week; Saturday.
{Seventh-day Baptists}. See under {Baptist}.
Baptist \Bap"tist\, n. [L. baptista, G. ?]
1. One who administers baptism; -- specifically applied to
John, the forerunner of Christ. --Milton.
2. One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity
of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that
baptism should be administered to believers alone, and
should be by immersion. See {Anabaptist}.
Note: In doctrine the Baptists of this country [the United
States] are Calvinistic, but with much freedom and
moderation. --Amer. Cyc.
{Freewill Baptists}, a sect of Baptists who are Arminian in
doctrine, and practice open communion.
{Seventh-day Baptists}, a sect of Baptists who keep the
seventh day of the week, or Saturday, as the Sabbath. See
{Sabbatarian}. The Dunkers and Campbellites are also
Baptists.