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Spnsorial :: Sponsor (n.) One who at the baptism of an infant professore the christian faith in its name, and guarantees its religious education; a godfather or godmother..

Baptistry :: Baptistry (n.) In early times, a separate building, usually polygonal, used for baptismal services. Small churches were often changed into baptisteries when larger churches were built near..

Insufflation :: Insufflation (n.) The breathing upon a person in the sacrament of baptism to symbolize the inspiration of a new spiritual life.

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

Baptist :: Baptist (n.) One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion. See Anabaptist..

Flagellant :: Flagellant (n.) One of a fanatical sect which flourished in Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries, and maintained that flagellation was of equal virtue with baptism and the sacrament; -- called also disciplinant..

Paedobaptism :: Paedobaptism (n.) Pedobaptism.

Dip :: Dip (v. t.) To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion.

Baptize :: Baptize (v. t.) To christen ( because a name is given to infants at their baptism); to give a name to; to name.

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..

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

Christendom :: Christendom (n.) The name received at baptism; or, more generally, any name or appelation..

Confirmation :: Confirmation (n.) A rite supplemental to baptism, by which a person is admitted, through the laying on of the hands of a bishop, to the full privileges of the church, as in the Roman Catholic, the Episcopal Church, etc..

Pedobaptist :: Pedobaptist (n.) One who advocates or practices infant baptism.

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..

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

Baptize :: Baptize (v. t.) To administer the sacrament of baptism to.

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..

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

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

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