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Christen

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baptizeverb(Christianity) To perform the sacrament of baptism by sprinkling or pouring water over someone or immersing them in water.
baptiseverbNon-Oxford British English standard form of baptize. [(Christianity) To perform the sacrament of baptism by sprinkling or pouring water over someone or immersing them in water.]

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baptizeverb(Christianity) To perform the sacrament of baptism by sprinkling or pouring water over someone or immersing them in water.
baptiseverbNon-Oxford British English standard form of baptize. [(Christianity) To perform the sacrament of baptism by sprinkling or pouring water over someone or immersing them in water.]
christiannounA believer in Christianity.
dedicateverb(transitive) To commit (oneself) to a particular course of thought or action.
dubnoun(transitive, now informal) To name, to entitle, to call.
christiansA Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
rechristenverb(transitive) To rename.
fullContaining the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available.
rebaptizeverb(transitive) To baptize again.
christianizeverb(transitive) To cause to convert to Christianity.
anabaptizeverb(transitive, archaic) To baptize or christen again, or to a different denomination; to rename or rechristen
rebaptisenounAlternative form of rebaptize. [(transitive) To baptize again.]
confirmverbTo assure the accuracy of previous statements.
insufflateverb(transitive) To breathe or blow into or on.
bishopnoun(Christianity) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.
churchnoun(countable, Christianity) A Christian house of worship; a building where Christian religious services take place.
chrismateverb(ecclesiastical, transitive) To anoint; to perform the sacrament of chrismation upon.
out-christianverb(transitive) To behave more Christianly than.
sacramentizeverb(Christianity) To administer the sacraments.
rechristianizeverb(transitive) To Christianize again.

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