Dunkards

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dunker \Dun"ker\, prop. n. [G. tunken to dip.]
     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.


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     Note: The denomination was founded in Germany in 1708, but
           after a few years the members emigrated to the United
           States; they were opposed to military service and
           taking legal oaths, and practiced trine immersion.
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     {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.
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