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Bathe :: Bathe (n.) The immersion of the body in water; as to take one's usual bathe.

Christian :: Christian (n.) One of a Christian denomination which rejects human creeds as bases of fellowship, and sectarian names. They are congregational in church government, and baptize by immersion. They are also called Disciples of Christ, and Campbellites..

Christian :: Christian (n.) One of a sect (called Christian Connection) of open-communion immersionists. The Bible is their only authoritative rule of faith and practice.

Immersion :: Immersion (n.) The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping; as, the immersion of Achilles in the Styx..

Hydrophane :: Hydrophane (n.) A semitranslucent variety of opal that becomes translucent or transparent on immersion in water.

Infusion :: Infusion (v. t.) The act of plunging or dipping into a fluid; immersion.

Drown :: Drown (v. t.) To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.

Skiver :: Skiver (n.) An inferior quality of leather, made of split sheepskin, tanned by immersion in sumac, and dyed. It is used for hat linings, pocketbooks, bookbinding, etc..

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

Hydrophanous :: Hydrophanous (a.) Made transparent by immersion in water.

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

Immersionist :: Immersionist (n.) One who holds the doctrine that immersion is essential to Christian baptism.

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..

Plunge :: Plunge (v. t.) To baptize by immersion.

Souse :: Souse (v. t.) To drench, as by an immersion; to wet throughly..

Adipocere :: Adipocere (n.) A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration..

Whelm :: Whelm (v. t.) To cover with water or other fluid; to cover by immersion in something that envelops on all sides; to overwhelm; to ingulf.

Immerse :: Immerse (v. t.) To baptize by immersion.

Immersion :: Immersion (n.) The dissapearance of a celestail body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite; -- opposed to emersion..

Scald :: Scald (v. t.) To burn with hot liquid or steam; to pain or injure by contact with, or immersion in, any hot fluid; as, to scald the hand..

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