to baptize
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4.4
- verb
- /ˈbæptaɪz/
:
bautizar
- In our church, we don't baptize them as infants.
- baptize a child
- baptize a person
- baptize people
Robert Randolph, Baptize me, put me in the water.
- Robert Randolph, Baptize me, put me in the water.
- So John the Baptist is baptizing Jesus and what happens?
- And two weeks after that I got baptized and he'd never been the same.
- So it's like for me it is literally it's like being like you ever been baptized or whatever?
- I would lie to you, you know, hardcore Jamaican parents that are like, you know, I wasn't when when I say I wasn't baptized, I was like, get in there.
- So just like parents can take the authority to baptize a child by the parents authority, the baby gets baptized.
- And it has an ability to move people to write a check or to change their life or to get baptized.
- In France, an illegitimate human being could not inherit, couldn't get loans, couldn't be baptized.
Examples
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I baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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I baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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You hate the Church, and then you get married and baptize your children in it.
Fiction book (1990) -
My child, I baptize you Maria Lucia.
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I would like to be baptized.
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Once a child had been baptized, the Holy See had determined he could never be returned.
Academic text (2011) -
Is it your will that Andrew John be baptized in the faith of the church which we all have professed with you?
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The day before his 81st birthday, he was baptized in the Wray Methodist Church, which he joined.
Academic text (2013) -
Twenty years apart, we were baptized right there," she said, pointing to the marble baptismal font.
Fiction book (1999) -
In our church, we don't baptize them as infants.
Synonyms
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6.0
To give a Christian name to someone at baptism
How Official
Surface Forms
Morphology
baptize = baptism (transparent) = bapt + ize
The verb is a straightforward -ize derivation relating directly to the ritual denoted by 'baptism'.
Etymology
Baptize comes from the Greek baptizein, which means 'to dip' or 'to immerse'. Think of it as dipping or sprinkling someone in water, which is exactly why to baptize someone is to perform the water ceremony of baptism.