All 10 Uses
baptism
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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- If a layman in giving baptism pour the water before saying the words is the child baptized?†
Chpt 3
- If a layman in giving baptism pour the water before saying the words is the child baptized?†
Chpt 3baptized = "spiritually renewed" in a Christian ceremony OR initiated or purified by a challenging experiencestandard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- Is baptism with a mineral water valid?†
Chpt 3
- He went from country to country in the east, from Africa to India, from India to Japan, baptizing the people.†
Chpt 3 *baptizing = "spiritual renewing" a person in a Christian ceremony OR initiating or purifying by a challenging experiencestandard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- He is said to have baptized as many as ten thousand idolaters in one month.†
Chpt 3baptized = "spiritually renewed" in a Christian ceremony OR initiated or purified by a challenging experiencestandard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- It is said that his right arm had grown powerless from having been raised so often over the heads of those whom he baptized.†
Chpt 3
- As the waters of baptism cleanse the soul with the body, so do the fires of punishment torture the spirit with the flesh.†
Chpt 3
- —Very well, then, Temple continued, still addressing Glynn, and if Jesus suffered the children to come why does the church send them all to hell if they die unbaptized?†
Chpt 5unbaptized = not "spiritually renewed" in a Christian ceremony OR not initiated or purified by a challenging experiencestandard 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.
- —Were you baptized yourself, Temple?†
Chpt 5baptized = "spiritually renewed" in a Christian ceremony OR initiated or purified by a challenging experiencestandard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- —Saint Augustine says that about unbaptized children going to hell, Temple answered, because he was a cruel old sinner too.†
Chpt 5unbaptized = not "spiritually renewed" in a Christian ceremony OR not initiated or purified by a challenging experiencestandard 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.
Definitions:
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(1)
(baptism) a Christian ceremony signifying spiritual cleansing and rebirth
or:
a challenging experience that initiates or purifiesMost churches baptize infants, but some require an adult to request baptism, and a few (such as the Quakers) require no baptism at all.
Typically, water is used as part of the ceremony, such as sprinkling a little water on a baby's head; though some churches use complete submersion in water. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)