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- English Word Banterer Definition One who banters or rallies.
- English Word Bantering Definition of Banter
- English Word Bantingism Definition A method of reducing corpulence by avoiding food containing much farinaceous, saccharine, or oily matter; -- so called from William Banting of London.
- English Word Bantling Definition A young or small child; an infant. [Slightly contemptuous or depreciatory.]
- English Word Banxring Definition An East Indian insectivorous mammal of the genus Tupaia.
- English Word Banyan Definition A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men.
- English Word Baobab Definition A gigantic African tree (Adansonia digitata), also naturalized in India. See Adansonia.
- English Word Baphomet Definition An idol or symbolical figure which the Templars were accused of using in their mysterious rites.
- English Word Baptism Definition The act of baptizing; the application of water to a person, as a sacrament or religious ceremony, by which he is initiated into the visible church of Christ. This is performed by immersion, sprinkling, or pouring.
- English Word Baptismal Definition Pertaining to baptism; as, baptismal vows.
- English Word Baptismally Definition In a baptismal manner.
- English Word Baptist Definition One who administers baptism; -- specifically applied to John, the forerunner of Christ.
- English Word Baptist Definition 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.
- English Word Baptisteries Definition of Baptistry
- English Word Baptistery Definition Alt. of Baptistry
- English Word Baptistic Definition Of or for baptism; baptismal.
- English Word Baptistical Definition Baptistic.
- English Word Baptistry Definition In early times, a separate building, usually polygonal, used for baptismal services. Small churches were often changed into baptisteries when larger churches were built near.
- English Word Baptistry Definition A part of a church containing a font and used for baptismal services.
- English Word Baptizable Definition Capable of being baptized; fit to be baptized.