(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.
Passover
Definition:
(n.) A feast of the Jews, instituted to commemorate the sparing of the Hebrews in Egypt, when God, smiting the firstborn of the Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites which were marked with the blood of a lamb.
(n.) The sacrifice offered at the feast of the passover; the paschal lamb.
Example Sentences:
(1) US stock markets were closed Friday for Easter and Passover.
(2) The Hocherman children's plan was to be back home at Hughes Mansions for the seder, the first-night meal that launches Passover.
(3) You know, you had someone as despicable as Hitler who didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons.” Sean Spicer apologizes for 'even Hitler didn't use chemical weapons' gaffe Read more Spicer’s assertion during the Jewish holiday of Passover provoked instant outrage on social media and from some Holocaust memorial groups, who accused him of minimising Hitler’s crimes.
(4) "Welcome to the Academy Awards," he said at one gala, "or, as it is known in my house - Passover."
(5) The vote on 26 March, however, coincides with the Jewish religious festival of Passover when a number of peers will be absent, including some key opponents of the bill in its current form.
(6) Passover was chosen for study because it allows comparison of the participating and non-participating (control) groups, and it moves around the calendar (thus allowing separation of the effects of the holiday from the effects of the seasons).
(7) US stock markets were closed Friday for Easter and Passover, but the dollar dropped against the euro for the first time in a week.
(8) There are fears about a fresh outbreak during the week-long Passover holiday, which begins on Monday, particularly if there is an increase in Jewish visitors to the flashpoint al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem.
(9) Celiac-Sprue patients were asked to complete a questionnaire regarding the effect of dietary restrictions on participation in the Passover meal and reception of Communion.
(10) In April, he didn’t pay servers at a Passover event who worked 20 hours straight .
(11) Since the central rite of Jewish identity is the Passover festival, which commemorates the moment that Moses freed his people from slavery in Egypt, the absence of evidence outside the Bible story is potentially embarrassing, says Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner, who leads Reform Judaism in this country: “When I heard for the first time that the exodus might not have happened, I did want to weep … then I thought, what does this matter?
(12) The Passover pattern of mortality was found in each of the three leading causes of death.
(13) Frazier Glenn Miller, 73, of Aurora, Missouri, is charged with capital murder in the attacks outside a Jewish community centre and a nearby retirement home on 13 April, the eve of Passover.
(14) The incident near the Israeli settlement of Ofra north of Ramallah occurred just a few days before the start of the Jewish Passover holiday, raising fears of an upsurge in violence.
(15) According to Haaretz, Netanyahu delayed announcing the step until shortly before the start of the Passover holiday.
(16) So at the start of Easter and Passover, many of those with workshops and offices perched above the jewellers that line this stretch of the capital made the short walk to Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd.
(17) An avowed white supremacist charged with killing three people outside two suburban Kansas City Jewish facilities on the eve of Passover said in a series of phone interviews that he was surprised none of the victims were Jewish.
(18) The claim that Jewish people killed Christian children to have human blood for matzos at Passover was used to justify antisemitism throughout the middle ages; in the same way, the age-old myth that Romanies are in the habit of kidnapping white children entered popular folklore around the same time, and has persisted to the present day.
(19) The immediate focus was on Pesach, the sixth time the school would spend the Passover festival in Shefford.
(20) A total of 28 crossover comparisons (utilizing the twin passover, balanced four-point incomplete block design) were performed in two sequentially related experiments, each assay comparing 4 and 8 mg of morphine with either 3 and 6 or 6 and 12 mg of nalbuphine.