BAPTISM PART 1

baptism |ˈbapˌtizəm|
noun
(in the Christian Church) the religious rite of sprinkling water onto a person's forehead or of immersion in water, symbolizing purification or regeneration and admission to the Christian Church. In many denominations, baptism is performed on young children and is accompanied by name-giving.
• a ceremony or occasion at which this takes place.
• a religious experience likened to this : baptism in the Holy Spirit.
• figurative a person's initiation into a particular activity or role, typically one perceived as difficult : this event constituted his baptism as a politician.
PHRASES
baptism of fire a difficult or painful new undertaking or experience. [ORIGIN: from the original sense of [a soldier's first battle.] ]
DERIVATIVES
baptismal |bapˈtizməl| adjective
ORIGIN Middle English : from Old French baptesme, via ecclesiastical Latin from ecclesiastical Greek baptismos 'ceremonial washing,' from baptizein 'immerse, baptize.'


baptism
noun
1 the baptism ceremony: christening, naming.
2 his baptism as a politician: initiation, debut, introduction, inauguration, launch, rite of passage.

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