0 present participle of baptize
1 to make someone officially a member of the Christian Church in a service of baptism:
[ + obj + noun ] Were you baptized a Catholic?
For inventing psychiatric registers has since 1800 entailed - baptizing and using new membership categories.
These rumors are absurd and nonsensical, as the government has no intention whatsoever of baptizing us.
But is there any way of testing whether those baptizing their children were representative of the parish as a whole?
There is a 13th-century baptismal font, supposedly used for baptizing the astronomer, 16th-century epitaph to him, and 18th-century monument.
These missionaries had much success in baptizing converts, but there were only three missionaries so no fully functioning order was needed.
Due to their spiritual and religious beliefs, barbers even performed religious ceremonies, such as marriages and baptizing children.
A door behind the pulpit leads to a creek for baptizing.
Among those that do, differences can be found in the manner and mode of baptizing and in the understanding of the significance of the rite.
