| baptism | | |
| n. (act) | 1. baptism | a Christian sacrament signifying spiritual cleansing and rebirth.; "most churches baptize infants but some insist on adult baptism" |
| ~ sacrament | a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction. |
| ~ affusion | the act of baptizing someone by pouring water on their head. |
| ~ aspersion, sprinkling | the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare). |
| ~ christening | giving a Christian name at baptism. |
| ~ immersion | a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged. |
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