0 to give a baby a name at a Christian ceremony and make him or her a member of the Christian Church: --
We christened him "Slowcoach" because he took so long to do anything.
[ + noun ] She was christened Maria.
She's being christened in June.
1 to use something for the first time: --
2 to call a person, esp. a baby, a Christian through the ceremony of baptism and by naming the person: --
Actually, a baby can have an identity card as soon as its birth has been registered, and its birth can be registered before it has been christened.
I particularly relished for its phraseology, if not for its accuracy, the comment of one of my friends who said that the series should have been re-christened.
I christened him our "pathfinder".
They first christened it a prestige programme.
When a christening ceremony comes along, parents have to pay a tax on the little hat that the child wears.
Perhaps that is not the proper word to use, because normally when we are christened we are unconscious of the occasion.
I had a sister who was christened there.
They have been a wedding, a christening or a meeting of friends—a celebration.
