(v. t.) To administer the sacrament of baptism to.
(v. t.) To christen ( because a name is given to infants at their baptism); to give a name to; to name.
(v. t.) To sanctify; to consecrate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Junípero Serra's road to sainthood is controversial for Native Americans Read more When the King of Spain sent Jesuit priests to prevent Russian fur hunters from claiming the region, he directed them to educate and baptize native peoples so they could become Spanish citizens, but Serra had other plans.
(2) They review the essential features of this lesion which was baptized by Jaffe.
(3) In this religious democratization, 80% of babies were still baptized, but church attendance fell to 57%, according to a recent Datafolha survey.
(4) I was baptized by fire.” Finley started by tracing the numbers the swatters used to call the Johns Creek emergency hotline.
(5) Thirty-five percent of children in the county live in poverty, and the unemployment rate for black men ages 20-24 is 37%, according to the latest US census data “I would say that 80 to 90% of the people we baptize into this church are poor people,” Adams said.
(6) He was also baptized as a Mormon, a key voting demographic in the state that his campaign had pursued relentlessly.
(7) And we know that because we have a Lift the Burden fund, and people get into situations where they need financial help, so most of the people we baptize are poor people.
(8) That was interrupted in 2015 when the church adopted rules banning children living with gay parents from being baptized until the age of 18.
(9) You’re a bum!” David Haye knocks out Mark de Mori in first round of boxing comeback Read more Once the pair were separated Wilder fired back: “You can run around like you’re a preacher but I promise you, when you do step in this ring I will baptize you!
Christen
Definition:
(v. t.) To baptize and give a Christian name to.
(v. t.) To give a name; to denominate.
(v. t.) To Christianize.
(v. t.) To use for the first time.
Example Sentences:
(1) Following the service, guests will attend a private tea at Clarence House, hosted by Prince Charles , where guests will be served christening cake.
(2) The present data emphasize the applicability of certain oxidants as trapping agents for enzymatic carbanion intermediates as proposed previously (Healy, M.J.,, and Christen, P. (1973) Biochemistry 12, 35-41).
(3) In July, a religious procession was organised by the Ukrainian Orthodox church to commemorate the anniversary of the christening of Kievan Rus’ , while calling for a peaceful resolution to the conflict in eastern Ukraine .
(4) It would swirl around that child's head in the manner of a bad fairy from a storybook bringing along a cursed gift to a christening.
(5) And with people like Douglas, Martin, Nathan, I'd go to their weddings, their children's christenings, birthday parties, and still do."
(6) Alan Clarke, at BNP Paribas, christened the new government "the odd couple".
(7) • George wore a reproduction of a christening gown worn by royal babies since 1841.
(8) However, its accumulation is limited by degradation with a half-life of only approximately 5 min (Jaussi, R., Sonderegger, P., Flückiger, J., and Christen, P. (1982) J. Biol.
(9) No doubt the archbishop of Canterbury will give Prince George a typically discreet Anglican sprinkling of water during his christening at St James's Palaceon Wednesday.
(10) In the first few pages he writes about his earliest memory, aged four, standing on a chair at his younger sister's christening, pulling faces while people laughed.
(11) The decrease in flagellar beat frequencies and sperm velocities are much greater than what could be extrapolated from the decrease of intracellular ATP (Christen R. et al: Eur.
(12) The duchess appears to be constantly dressed for a christening.
(13) He was reported to have been in jovial form following the christening of his granddaughter at Staghall Church near Belturbet, Co Cavan on Boxing Day before returning to Mountjoy.
(14) Since 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid (3HAA), an oxidation product of tryptophan metabolism, is a powerful radical scavenger [Christen, S., Peterhans, E., & Stocker, R. (1990) Proc.
(15) When he was born on 5 December 1971, the politician was christened Karl-Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp Franz Sylvester Joseph von und zu Guttenberg.
(16) George will be christened in a replica of the intricate lace and satin christening gown made for Queen Victoria's eldest daughter, Victoria, the princess royal, in 1841.
(17) The O’Neill-Keane combination was immediately christened the dream team when they took over from Giovanni Trapattoni in 2013 but after showing some promise in early friendlies performances have slumped.
(18) The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London at Prince George's christening.
(19) He had two names: christened Lee Alexander McQueen , he used Alexander when he started his label to avoid jeopardising his unemployment benefit.
(20) And once you've bought, you're not allowed to exhale with relief as you christen the hatstand and pour your inaugural brandy.