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Baptistry :: Baptistry (n.) A part of a church containing a font and used for baptismal services.

Scrutiny :: Scrutiny (n.) An examination of catechumens, in the last week of Lent, who were to receive baptism on Easter Day..

Baptistic :: Baptistic (a.) Of or for baptism; baptismal.

Christendom :: Christendom (n.) The profession of faith in Christ by baptism; hence, the Christian religion, or the adoption of it..

Clinic :: Clinic (n.) One who receives baptism on a sick bed.

Tridacna :: Tridacna (n.) A genus of very large marine bivalve shells found on the coral reefs of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. One species (T. gigas) often weighs four or five hundred pounds, and is sometimes used for baptismal fonts. Called also paw shell, and fountain shell..

Neophyte :: Neophyte (n.) A new convert or proselyte; -- a name given by the early Christians, and still given by the Roman Catholics, to such as have recently embraced the Christian faith, and been admitted to baptism, esp. to converts from heathenism or Judaism..

Rebaptization :: Rebaptization (n.) A second baptism.

Immersion :: Immersion (n.) Submersion in water for the purpose of Christian baptism, as, practiced by the Baptists..

Godchild :: Godchild (n.) One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather..

Affusion :: Affusion (n.) The act of pouring upon, or sprinkling with a liquid, as water upon a child in baptism..

Anabaptist :: Anabaptist (n.) A name sometimes applied to a member of any sect holding that rebaptism is necessary for those baptized in infancy.

Pedobaptism :: Pedobaptism (n.) The baptism of infants or of small children.

Metastasis :: Metastasis (n.) A spiritual change, as during baptism..

Goddaughter :: Goddaughter (n.) A female for whom one becomes sponsor at baptism.

Unsacrament :: Unsacrament (v. t.) To deprive of sacramental character or efficacy; as, to unsacrament the rite of baptism..

Surname :: Surname (n.) A name or appellation which is added to, or over and above, the baptismal or Christian name, and becomes a family name..

#NAME? :: -ism () A suffix indicating an act, a process, the result of an act or a process, a state; also, a characteristic (as a theory, doctrine, idiom, etc.); as, baptism, galvanism, organism, hypnotism, socialism, sensualism, Anglicism..

Baptismally :: Baptismally (adv.) In a baptismal manner.

Catabaptist :: Catabaptist (n.) One who opposes baptism, especially of infants..

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