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  • The Pope said he would baptize Martians if they asked.
    baptize = "spiritually renew" (a person) in a Christian ceremony
  • My own baptism, and every one I have witnessed so far, took place in something like a large bathtub or small swimming pool in the Baptist Church.  (source)
    baptism = a Christian ceremony signifying spiritual cleansing and rebirth
  • I hope your baptism sets you on the right road—it's plain you've been a long time on the wrong one.  (source)
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  • She been baptized.  (source)
    baptized = "spiritually renewed" in a Christian ceremony
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
  • ...and she dressed Coyotito in the clothes she had prepared for his baptism,  (source)
    baptism = a Christian ceremony signifying spiritual cleansing and rebirth
  • "Probably stopped to baptize one another," Augustus said.†  (source)
    baptize = "spiritually renew" (a person) in a Christian ceremony  OR  initiate or purify by a challenging experience
  • This meant baptismal certificates, confirmation papers.†  (source)
    baptismal = relating to a Christian ceremony signifying spiritual cleansing and rebirth  OR  relating to a challenging experience that initiates or purifies
  • Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.†  (source)
    baptizing = "spiritual renewing" a person in a Christian ceremony  OR  initiating or purifying by a challenging experience
  • The encoded numbers are followed by announcements, births and baptisms and engagements and deaths.†  (source)
  • MRS. PUTNAM: Reverend Parris, I have laid seven babies unbaptized in the earth.  (source)
    unbaptized = "spiritually cleansed" in a Christian ceremony
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unbaptized means not and reverses the meaning of baptized. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Caleb baptised two babies.†  (source)
    baptised = "spiritually renewed" in a Christian ceremony  OR  initiated or purified by a challenging experience
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use baptized.
  • "If that you list, the angel shall ye see, So that ye trow* Of Christ, and you baptise;†  (source)
    baptise = "spiritually renew" in a Christian ceremony  OR  initiate or purify by a challenging experience
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use baptize.
  • And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.†  (source)
    baptizeth = "spiritually renews" in a Christian ceremony  OR  initiates or purifies by a challenging experience
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She baptizeth" in older English, today we say "She baptizes."
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