baptize
(Christianity)
[verb]
Synonyms: purify, cleanse, immerse

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Related Words: cleanse, purify, regenerate

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bap‧tize (also baptise British English) /bæpˈtaɪz $ ˈbæptaɪz/ verb [transitive]
[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: baptiser, from Late Latin, from Greek baptizein 'to dip, baptize', from baptein 'to dip']

1. to perform the ceremony of baptism on someone ⇒ christen

2. to accept someone as a member of a particular Christian church by a ceremony of baptism:
He was baptized a Roman Catholic.

3. to give a child a name in a baptism ceremony:
She was baptized Jane.

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