(v. i.) The act of baptizing; the application of water to a person, as a sacrament or religious ceremony, by which he is initiated into the visible church of Christ. This is performed by immersion, sprinkling, or pouring.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was, in a critical sense, our nation’s baptism of fire – and 8,000 Australians didn’t come back.” Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, sought to underline the theme of reconciliation: “The sons of nations who fought each other on opposing sides 100 years ago will gather under the same roof to convey the message of peace and brotherhood to the world,” he said.
(2) Data from the baptismal records of the Parochial Church of Humahuaca from 1734 to 1810 were grouped into two periods, 1734-72 and 1773-1810.
(3) Nearly all of the world’s religions involve some sort of ritual cleansing by submerging oneself or parts of the body in water, from mikveh to baptism to ablutions.
(4) At the Television Critics Association winter press tour in California last week, Evans admitted rebuilding the show, which makes about £150m a year for the corporation, has been a “baptism of fire”.
(5) In a bid to increase its resources, the almoner’s office last month reasserted the Vatican’s monopoly on the production of papal blessings on parchment, which some Catholics buy to mark special occasions such as baptisms and marriages.
(6) Congregations increase during his time and bereavement and baptism teams are launched.
(7) But after the photo person took my picture, he sent me to another woman, and I handed her the form and my stack of papers, and she just threw my baptism certificate back at me and said it wasn’t valid and I couldn’t get an ID.
(8) A bishop in Sicily has banned known mafia criminals from acting as godfathers at baptisms in churches in his diocese.
(9) It is time to stop calling each other names, time to shun the idea that we should define ourselves by our differences and instead define ourselves by what we hold in common – our baptism into Christ, our dependence on God’s grace, our will to serve the poor and so on.” Co-ordinator of the principal clerk’s office, Very Rev David Arnott, said: “The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland decided today to allow individual kirk sessions the possibility of allowing a nominating committee to consider an application from a minister living in a civil partnership.
(10) In particular, Afghanistan's elite counter-terror teams have come through a baptism of fire after dealing with a series of ever more dangerous and complicated attacks on Kabul in the last year.
(11) For me it’s quite easy to connect because I know where he’s going to be, we’ve got a great understanding and I’m sure it’s only going to get stronger.” A veteran of 33 Merseyside derbies, it was apt that Gerrard’s MLS baptism came in a derby match – albeit between two teams separated by a five-hour drive rather than a five-minute walk.
(12) "It was some baptism of fire, for his first year in charge of a publicly-listed company and his first exposure to the newspaper industry," says a second City source.
(13) Built in traditional stone, it is a popular venue for traditional Greek festivals (including baptisms that take full advantage of the lapping waves on the beach below).
(14) Among the 266 holders of the papacy to date, the current incumbent is the first to take Francis, a flash of re-baptismal originality in a line of succession in which the Johns reach 23, there have been a dozen men called Pius and 13 took the name Innocent.
(15) More evidence is presented: a questionable letter from a grateful patient; Hickman's stewardship at a Charity Ball; the baptism of his children at Shifnal.
(16) I thought that was normal, because I’d never done anything important.” Debicki looks back on her experience of working on her first major studio project as “baptism by fire”.
(17) The move would allow for baptisms and burials, Kaczyński said.
(18) Although they share certain beliefs, such as adult baptism and the separation of church and state, each group is culturally unique.
(19) IMPs computed from baptism closely resembled those for U.S. non-whites after 1950.
(20) The demographic reconstruction is based upon baptismal and marriage records, the administration of demographic proformae and population censuses.
Name
Definition:
(n.) The title by which any person or thing is known or designated; a distinctive specific appellation, whether of an individual or a class.
(n.) A descriptive or qualifying appellation given to a person or thing, on account of a character or acts.
(n.) Reputed character; reputation, good or bad; estimation; fame; especially, illustrious character or fame; honorable estimation; distinction.
(n.) Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
(n.) A person, an individual.
(n.) To give a distinctive name or appellation to; to entitle; to denominate; to style; to call.
(n.) To mention by name; to utter or publish the name of; to refer to by distinctive title; to mention.
(n.) To designate by name or specifically for any purpose; to nominate; to specify; to appoint; as, to name a day for the wedding.
(n.) To designate (a member) by name, as the Speaker does by way of reprimand.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(2) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
(3) All former US presidents set up a library in their name to house their papers and honour their legacy.
(4) intravesical, ureteroceles, which we have named 'ostioplasty', is presented.
(5) Two small populations of GLY + neurons were observed outside of the named nuclei of the SOC; one was located dorsal to the LSO, near its dorsal hilus, and the other was identified near the medial pole of the LSO.
(6) Names, and the absence of them, could be important Facebook Twitter Pinterest Don’t look back … Daisy Ridley’s Rey and John Boyega’s stormtrooper Finn.
(7) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
(8) Then, when he was forgiven, he walked along a moonbeam and said to Ha-Notsri [Hebrew name for Jesus of Nazareth]: “You know, you were right.
(9) A 45-year-old mother of four, named as Hediye Sen, was killed during clashes in Cizre, while a 70-year-old died of a heart attack during fighting in Silopi, according to hospital sources.
(10) The high participation percentage also shows that the prerequisite of screening, namely, a positive attitude on the part of the population, was as well fulfilled in the present project.
(11) This novel mechanism of receptor regulation, named transmodulation, should be distinguished from the reduction in total receptor number caused by the homologous ligand (downregulation) and from the change in affinity produced by the binding of agonists or antagonists to the same receptor site.
(12) Solely infectious waste become removed hospital-intern and -extern on conditions of hygienic prevention, namely through secure packing during the transport, combustion or desinfection.
(13) 3) The first who presumed an independent state of these microorganisms, was Kohlert (1968), from the work of which the epithet for correct name, i.e.
(14) A man named Moreno Facebook Twitter Pinterest Italy's players give chase to an inscrutable Byron Moreno, whose relationship with the country was only just beginning.
(15) Glucocorticoids have been shown in in vitro systems to inhibit the release of arachidonic acid metabolites, namely prostaglandins (PGs) and leukotrienes, apparently, via the induction of a phospholipase A2 inhibitory protein, called lipocortin.
(16) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
(17) Knapman concluded that the 40-year-old designer, whose full name was Lee Alexander McQueen, "killed himself while the balance of his mind was disturbed".
(18) The genome characterization of the typing strains for all 13 species of the genus Staphylococcus, included into the Approval List of the Names of Bacterial (1980), is presented.
(19) L-NAME abolished B contractions in a dose-dependent fashion.
(20) Resistance to antibiotics have been detected in food poisoning bacteria, namely Salmonella typhimurium, Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium perfringens.