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English → English (gcide) Definition: Freewill Baptists free-will \free-will\, freewill \free"will`\, a. Of or pertaining to free will; voluntary; spontaneous; as, a freewill offering. [1913 Webster] Freewill Baptists. See under Baptist. [1913 Webster] Baptist \Bap"tist\ (b[a^]p"t[i^]st), n. [L. baptista, Gr. baptisth`s.] [1913 Webster] 1. One who administers baptism; -- specifically applied to John, the forerunner of Christ. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Note: In doctrine the Baptists of this country [the United States] are Calvinistic, but with much freedom and moderation. --Amer. Cyc. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]