All 6 Uses
baptism
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The Perfect Game
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- I baptized all of you.†
Chpt 1.4 *baptized = "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.
- Although Cesar Faz was baptized Catholic, he felt strangely out of place in the pews of San Juan Bautista the next day.†
Chpt 1.4
- While Angel Macias and his friends were being baptized in Monterrey's Holy Water, Cesar's outfit was being baptized by fire in the Marshall Islands.†
Chpt 1.5
- While Angel Macias and his friends were being baptized in Monterrey's Holy Water, Cesar's outfit was being baptized by fire in the Marshall Islands.†
Chpt 1.5
- In the Aztec peasant's fiftieth year, he was led into the warm waters of Lake Texcoco and baptized before God as Juan Diego.†
Chpt 2.17
- They planned to celebrate Cesar's last evening in Monterrey the way they'd baptized many a bar on the waterfront of Luzon, Philippines, and in the Barrio Antigua.†
Chpt 3.30
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)