baptize
vt.给人施洗礼(作为入基督教的标志),洗炼,命名(作为洗礼仪式的一部分)
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baptize为短语/超纲词汇
词形变化:
名词:baptizer 动词过去式:baptized 过去分词:baptized 现在分词:baptizing 第三人称单数:baptizes
近义词, 同义词
baptize
/bæp'taɪz; bæp`taɪz/
v [Tn, Cn.n esp passive 尤用于被动语态]
1 give baptism to (sb); christen 为(某人)施洗礼; 洗礼时命名
*She was baptized Mary. 她受洗礼时被命名为玛丽.
2 admit into a specified church by baptism 以洗礼方式使加入某教会
*I was baptized a Catholic. 我曾受洗礼成为天主教徒. Cf 参看 christen.
baptize
v [T][
Date: 1200-1300;
Language: Old French;Origin: baptiser, from
Late Latin, from
Greek baptizein
'to dip, baptize', from baptein
'to dip']
to perform the ceremony of baptism on someone
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christento accept someone as a member of a particular Christian church by a ceremony of baptism
He was baptized a Roman Catholic.to give a child a name in a baptism ceremony
She was baptized Jane.