Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for BAP'TIS-TER-Y
BAP'TISTBAP-TIS'TIC, or BAP-TIS'TIC-AL
BAP'TIS-TER-Y, n. [L. baptisterium.]
A place where the sacrament of baptism is administered. Primitively, baptisteries were in buildings separate from the church; but in the sixth century they were taken into the church-porch, and afterwards into the church itself. – Encyc.
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