baptise

Verb

Meaning

administer baptism to

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

christen baptize water name term style title call address label baptism merge tag baptized designate

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Antonyms

improve DRY disorder dirty disrupt disperse

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Hypernyms

name call be known as know as

Phrases with the word

half-baptise

Examples

The parents had the child baptized Source: Internet

Berger's biological Jewish parents died during the Holocaust, and after the war Berger's new Christian parents asked a young Polish priest named Karol Wojtyła, the future Pope John Paul II, to baptise the boy. Source: Internet

At the moment of baptism, the minister utters the words "I baptise you (or, 'The servant of God (name) is baptised') in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit" (see Matthew 28:19 ). Source: Internet

It is a naval tradition to baptise children using the ship's bell as a baptismal font and to engrave the child's name on the bell afterwards. Source: Internet

Waller, p. 300 When her father tried to get Anne to baptise her youngest daughter into the Catholic faith, Anne burst into tears. Source: Internet

She then asked Father Fox to baptise her sons. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Bapticostal baptisable baptisand baptised baptisia baptisia alba