01 prop. n. One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers; -- called als…
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One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers; -- called also Tunkers, Dunkards, Dippers, and, by themselves, Brethren, and German Baptists, and they call their denomination the Church of the Brethren. Also: Tunkers, Dunkards, Dippers, Brethren, German Baptists
Phrases & compounds
Seventh-day Dunkers —
a sect which separated from the Dunkers and formed a community, in 1728. They keep the seventh day or Saturday as the Sabbath.