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use a name is given to infants at their baptism); to give a name to; to name. I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo. Shak.

The act of baptizing.[R.]

One who baptizes.

To rebaptize; to rechristen; also, to rename. [R.] Whitlock.

To baptize again or a second time.

One who rebaptizes.

r genuineness. Immediately upon the acknowledgment of the Christian faith, the eunuch was baptized by Philip. Hooker.

er Easter Sunday, properly Albless Sunday, because in the early church those who had been baptized on Easter eve laid aside on the following Saturday their white albs which had been put on after baptism.

e sometimes applied to a member of any sect holding that rebaptism is necessary for those baptized in infancy.

Capable of being baptized; fit to be baptized. Baxter.

A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized. Shak.

In a state of servitude or slavery; captive. By one Spirit are we all baptized .. whether we be Jews or Bentiles, whether we be bond or free. 1 Cor. xii. 13.

A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened. [Obs.]

To baptize and give a Christian name to.

ses of fellowship, and sectarian names. They are congregational in church government, and baptize by immersion. They are also called Disciples of Christ, and Campbellites.

To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion. Book of Common Prayer. Fuller.

of the filioque, which, with the doctrine it represents, the church decisively rejects), baptizes infants with trine immersion, makes confirmation follow immediately upon baptism, administers the Communion in both kinds (using leavened bread) and to infants as well as adults, permits its secular clergy to marry before…

To lead on; to bring along; to introduce. [Obs.] To baptize all nations, and entertain them into the services institutions of the holy Jesus. Jer. Taylor.

of the human male. They went down both into the water, Philip and the gelding, and Philip baptized him. Wyclif (Acts viii. 38).

ety for its Christian training and instruction. There shall be for every Male-child to be baptized, when they can be had, two Godfathers and one Godmother; and for every Female, one Godfather and two Godmothers; and Parents shall be admitted as Sponsors, if it is desired. Book of Common Prayer (Prot. Episc. Ch., U. S.…