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baptize

[bap-tahyz, bap-tahyz] / bæpˈtaɪz, ˈbæp taɪz /


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Miraculous moments in the story, such as water welling from a rock where Patrick later baptizes people, play out in a quiet tone.

From The Wall Street Journal

Catholicism is the faith I was baptized in, the one I embraced as a teen and that’s the bedrock for my moral code of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.

From Los Angeles Times

He has long denied being a Satan worshipper, as some critics insisted, and he once told an interviewer he was a baptized Christian.

From The Wall Street Journal

“As a missionary, we didn’t have to receive special permission from somebody in order to baptize an undocumented individual,” she recalled.

From Los Angeles Times

To this day, at the start of every new season in Statesboro, any new players or coaches are “baptized” in its magical waters.

From Los Angeles Times