All 18 Uses
baptism
in
Death Comes for the Archbishop
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- The grandfather declared that the Blessed Virgin must have led the Bishop from his path and brought him here to baptize the children and to sanctify the marriages.†
Part 1baptize = "spiritually renew" (a person) in a Christian ceremony OR initiate or purify 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.
- One thing they could understand; that he had here in his saddle-bags his vestments, the altar stone, and all the equipment for celebrating the Mass; and that tomorrow morning, after Mass, he would hear confessions, baptize, and sanctify marriages.†
Part 1
- He had performed marriages and baptisms and heard confessions and confirmed until noon.†
Part 1
- This I begged for your dinner at the hacienda where I went to baptize the baby on St. Thomas's Day.†
Part 1baptize = "spiritually renew" (a person) in a Christian ceremony OR initiate or purify 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 was to stop at the rancho of a rich Mexican, Manuel Lujon, to marry his men and maid servants who were living in concubinage, and to baptize the children.†
Part 2
- But bring their children to be baptized, they would not.†
Part 2 *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.
- Father Vaillant had not baptized one infant there, but he meant to stop to-morrow and try again.†
Part 2
- There are all the children to baptize; why not begin with them, if I cannot persuade you to wash the dust from your sainted brow and repose a little.†
Part 2baptize = "spiritually renew" (a person) in a Christian ceremony OR initiate or purify 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.
- No, I tell you, Lujon, the marriages first, the baptisms afterward; that order is but Christian.†
Part 2
- I will baptize the children to-morrow morning, and their parents will at least have been married over night.†
Part 2baptize = "spiritually renew" (a person) in a Christian ceremony OR initiate or purify 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.
- "To-morrow morning, the baptisms," he announced.†
Part 2
- The next morning, after coffee, while the children were being got ready for baptism, the host took Father Vaillant through his corrals and stables to show him his stock.†
Part 2
- Arm-inarm they went in to begin the baptisms.†
Part 2
- When the Bishop permitted himself to express some surprise that there was not a confirmation class awaiting him, the Padre explained smoothly that it was his custom to confirm infants at their baptism.†
Part 3
- The Governor told him that his people would come to Mass in the morning, and that there were a number of children to be baptized.†
Part 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.
- Those shell-like backs behind him might be saved by baptism and divine grace, as undeveloped infants are, but hardly through any experience of their own, he thought.†
Part 3
- Last year, in May, he had been on his way to the Hopi Indians, riding thirty miles a day; marrying, baptizing, confessing as he went, making camp in the sand-hills at night.†
Part 7baptizing = "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.
- Eusabio brought his son all the way to Santa Fé to have the Bishop baptize him,—that one beloved son who had died during this last winter.†
Part 7baptize = "spiritually renew" (a person) in a Christian ceremony OR initiate or purify 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.
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)