What's the difference between baptize and rebaptize?
Baptize
Definition:
(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!
Rebaptize
Definition:
(v. t.) To baptize again or a second time.
Example Sentences:
(1) It turned to be prosperous under the administration of "San Juan de Dios" monks (1617), who rebaptized the Hospital with their name.