Baptize
[bæp'taɪz]
Definition
(verb.) administer baptism to; 'The parents had the child baptized'.
Typist: Sanford--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To administer the sacrament of baptism to.
(v. t.) To christen ( because a name is given to infants at their baptism); to give a name to; to name.
(v. t.) To sanctify; to consecrate.
Typed by Alice
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Administer baptism to.[2]. Christen.
Editor: Nita
Examples
- Ay, truly, said the hermit, and many a hundred of pagans did he baptize there, but I never heard that he drank any of it. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- He brought gold, cotton, strange beasts and birds, and two wild-eyed painted Indians to be baptized. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Was it you, thus baptized unto Death, with these flying impurities now flung upon your face? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It is from the well of St Dunstan, said he, in which, betwixt sun and sun, he baptized five hundred heathen Danes and Britons--blessed be his name! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I had no religion but I knew he ought to have been baptized. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The child that was half-baptized Oliver Twist, is nine year old to-day. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Objective likeness of acts and the mental satisfaction found in being in conformity with others are baptized by the name imitation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Eusebius gives a curious account of this strange gathering, over which the Emperor, although he was not yet a baptized Christian, presided. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Edited by Lelia