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Baptist vs Catholic - What's the difference?

baptist | catholic |

As a noun baptist

is a person who baptizes.

As an adjective catholic is

universal; all-encompassing.

baptist

English

Noun

  • A Protestant denomination of Christianity, which believes in the baptism of believers, as opposed to the baptism of infants.
  • An adherent of this denomination.

    • Hypernyms

    * Protestant

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, relating to, or adhering to the Baptist religious denomination.

    • Anagrams

    * English words suffixed with -ist

    catholic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Universal; all-encompassing.
  • * 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.29:
    • Essentially, and in idea, the empire, in the minds of the Romans, was world-wide. This conception descended to the Church, which was ‘Catholic ’ in spite of Buddhists, Confucians, and (later) Muhammadans.
  • Pertaining to all kinds of people and their range of tastes, proclivities etc.; liberal.
    • He has catholic tastes.

    • Synonyms

    * universal