baptism

3 definitions found

baptism - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Baptism \Bap"tism\, n. [OE. baptim, baptem, OF. baptesme,
     batisme, F. bapt[^e]me, L. baptisma, fr. Gr. ba`ptisma, fr.
     bapti`zein to baptize, fr. ba`ptein to dip in water, akin to
     baqy`s deep, Skr. g[=a]h to dip, bathe, v. i.]
     The act of baptizing; the application of water to a person,
     as a sacrament or religious ceremony, by which he is
     initiated into the visible church of Christ. This is
     performed by immersion, sprinkling, or pouring.
     [1913 Webster]

baptism - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  baptism
      n 1: a Christian sacrament signifying spiritual cleansing and
           rebirth; "most churches baptize infants but some insist on
           adult baptism"

baptism - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  84 Moby Thesaurus words for "baptism":
     acceptance, admission, admittance, affusion, appellation,
     aspergation, aspersion, baptismal gown, baptismal regeneration,
     baptistery, baptizement, bath, bathing, bedewing, burial, calling,
     chrismal, christening, confirmation, dampening, damping,
     definition, deluge, denomination, designation, dewing, dip,
     dipping, dousing, drowning, duck, ducking, dunking, engulfment,
     enlistment, enrollment, extreme unction, flooding, font,
     holy orders, hosing, hosing down, humidification, identification,
     immergence, immersion, immission, inauguration, induction,
     infusion, initiation, installation, instatement, intromission,
     inundation, investiture, irrigation, laving, matrimony, moistening,
     naming, nicknaming, ordination, penance, rinsing, seven sacraments,
     sinking, souse, sousing, sparging, spattering, splashing,
     splattering, spraying, sprinkling, styling, submergence,
     submersion, swashing, terming, the Eucharist, total immersion,
     watering, wetting