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f immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping; as, the immersion of Achilles in the Styx.

One who holds the doctrine that immersion is essential to Christian baptism.

lor, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration.

A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense. Behold an immersion, not and aspersion. Jer. Taylor.

eremony, by which he is initiated into the visible church of Christ. This is performed by immersion, sprinkling, or pouring.

ng, and maintain that baptism should be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion. See Anabaptist.

To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath. Chancing to bathe himself in the River Cydnus. South.

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

mmunion, communion in the Lord's supper, restricted to those who have received baptism by immersion. -- Close corporation, a body or corporation which fills its own vacancies. -- Close fertilization. (Bot.) See Fertilization. -- Close harmony (Mus.), compact harmony, in which the tones composing each chord are not w…

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

To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.

h 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 ordination and to keep thei…

ut of anything; as, emersion from the sea; emersion from obscurity or difficulties. Their immersion into water and their emersion out of the same. Knatchbull.

A semitranslucent variety of opal that becomes translucent or transparent on immersion in water.

Made transparent by immersion in water.

To baptize by immersion.

The act of plunging or dipping into a fluid; immersion. [Obs.] "Baptism by infusion." Jortin.

Immersion [R.] Barrow.

pomotis) of the Eastern United States. It produces a deep grunting note. -- Mud bath, an immersion of the body, or some part of it, in mud charged with medicinal agents, as a remedy for disease. -- Mud boat, a large flatboat used in deredging. -- Mud cat. See Catfish. -- Mud crab (Zoöl.), any one of several America…

union, communion in the Lord's supper not restricted to persons who have been baptized by immersion. Cf. Close communion, under Close, a. -- Open diapason (Mus.), a certain stop in an organ, in which the pipes or tubes are formed like the mouthpiece of a flageolet at the end where the wind enters, and are open at the…