Baptism
['bæptɪz(ə)m] or ['bæptɪzəm]
解释:
(noun.) a Christian sacrament signifying spiritual cleansing and rebirth; 'most churches baptize infants but some insist on adult baptism'.
整理:洛蒂--From WordNet
解释:
(v. i.) The act of baptizing; the application of water to a person, as a sacrament or religious ceremony, by which he is initiated into the visible church of Christ. This is performed by immersion, sprinkling, or pouring.
巴贝奇录入
娱乐性解释：
To dream of baptism, signifies that your character needs strengthening by the practice of temperance in advocating your opinions to the disparagement of your friends. To dream that you are an applicant, signifies that you will humiliate your inward self for public favor. To dream that you see John the Baptist baptizing Christ in the Jordan, denotes that you will have a desperate mental struggle between yielding yourself to labor in meagre capacity for the sustenance of others, or follow desires which might lead you into wealth and exclusiveness. To see the Holy Ghost descending on Christ, is significant of resignation to duty and abnegation of self. If you are being baptized with the Holy Ghost and fire, means that you will be thrown into a state of terror over being discovered in some lustful engagement.
编辑:特鲁迪
娱乐性解释：
n. A sacred rite of such efficacy that he who finds himself in heaven without having undergone it will be unhappy forever. It is performed with water in two ways—by immersion or plunging and by aspersion or sprinkling.
科林整理
例句:
- I do not mean to be conferred in Baptism upon our children, but to be inscribed on Bills of Exchange, and negotiated in the Money Market. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- To refuse baptism or to retract after baptism was a crime punishable by death. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- What I now suffered was called illness--a headache: I accepted the baptism. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
校对:伦道夫