BAPTIZING Synonyms

• giving a Christian name at baptism

• complete and wholehearted fidelity

• a ceremony in which something (as a building) is dedicated to some goal or purpose

• a message that makes a pledge

• a short message (as in a book or musical work or on a photograph) dedicating it to someone or something

• the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action

• sinking until covered completely with water

• (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse

• complete attention; intense mental effort

• a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged

• the act of wetting something by submerging it

• the verbal act of naming

• the act of putting a person into a non-elective position

• inclined to or serving for the giving of names

• the act of cleaning by getting rid of impurities

• the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.)

• a ceremonial cleansing from defilement or uncleanness by the performance of appropriate rites

• the act of purging of sin or guilt; moral or spiritual cleansing

• of or relating to or characteristic of religious rituals

• of or relating to or employed in social rites or rituals

• any customary observance or practice

• the prescribed procedure for conducting religious ceremonies

• stereotyped behavior

• administer baptism to

• administer baptism to