Mennonite

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A member of an Anabaptist church characterized particularly by simplicity of life, pacifism, and nonresistance.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A member of a Christian denomination which originated in Friesland in the early part of the sixteenth century, and holds doctrines of which Menno Simons (1492-1559) was the chief exponent. The leading features of the Mennonite bodies have been baptism on profession of faith, refusal of oaths, of civic offices, and of the support of the state in war, and a tendency to asceticism. Many of these beliefs and practices have been modified. The sect became divided in the seventeenth century into the Upland (“Obere”) Mennonites or Ammanites and the Lowland (“Untere”) Mennonites, the former being the more conservative and rigorous. Members of the sectare found in the Netherlands, Germany, Russia, etc., and especially in the United States. In the last-named country they are divided into “Untere” or Old Mennonites, “Obere” Mennonites or Ammanites, New Menuonites, Evangelical Mennonites, and Reformed Menuonites (or Herrians).

Wiktionary

1. n. a group of denominations in the Anabaptist movement in the Christian church
2. n. a member of such a denomination

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a member of an Anabaptist movement in Holland noted for its simplicity of life