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Another word for baptize

VERB

  1. To give a name or title to

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    specific

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Another word for baptize

VERB

  1. To cleanse sacramentally

  2. To give a name

    See also:

    name

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • Therefore they baptize no one until he is thirty years of age.

  • In cases of imminent death a layman or a woman could baptize, and in the case of new-born children it is often necessary.

  • They therefore elect elders, who expound the Scriptures, baptize and hear confessions.

  • They therefore elect elders, who expound the Scriptures, baptize and hear confessions.

  • In conditional baptism the Latins, since about the year 1227, use the formula, " If thou art not baptized, then do I baptize thee," &c. The Latins further insist on a strict observance of the traditional matter and form.

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