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Definition of Baptism

Baptism

  1. The act of baptizing; the application of water to a person, as a sacrament or religious ceremony, by which he is initiated into the visible church of Christ. This is performed by immersion, sprinkling, or pouring.

Baptism Quotations

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
H. L. Mencken

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.
Samuel Butler

Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.
Ken Kesey

Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
Billy Sunday

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
Arthur Rimbaud
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Baptism Translations

baptism in German is Taufe
baptism in Spanish is bautismo
baptism in Swedish is dop

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