0 past simple and past 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?
The children of these unions were baptized as legitimate.
A child could be registered as baptized under one spelling and buried under a minor variant soon after.
And so, a week ago, he also wanted to be baptized, although he was so weak already that he could not raise his head.
Formerly, the ordained priesthood had been allimportant, while, under the new vision, each baptized person was to participate in the priesthood of the whole.
Happily, however, our second sample is not dependent on the parties having brought their children to be baptized in church, and to this we shall now turn.
He proved the existence in plants of a transportable compound (baptized auxin and later shown to be indole-3-acetic acid) that was responsible for the regulation of elongation growth.
But while the other 91 combinations of parents produced an average of 4.3 children each,38 those baptized as 'base ' tended to be one-offs.
They are converted by platoons and baptized in battalions; they turn round in a thoroughly well regimented way.
