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baptize

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


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He also noted the space-alien allusions reminded him of the book “Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial,” a theological rumination by the astronomers at the Vatican Observatory.

From Washington Times • Dec. 17, 2020

In 2014, two Jesuit astronomers at the Vatican published a book with the title, “Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?”

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 23, 2016

Baptize him as you baptized those others yesterday.

From Time Magazine Archive

John, perceiving this, remonstrated with Jesus, saying that it was not meet and proper, nor in accordance with the customs of the Brotherhoods, for the inferior to Baptize the superior.

From Mystic Christianity by Atkinson, William Walker

"Baptize," he further remarks, it is said, means immerse.

From Bertha and Her Baptism by Adams, Nehemiah




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