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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of baptize.

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Examples

  • Rather than talk about it, the oldest way baptizes you in its current.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • By His power He is present in the sacraments, so that when a man baptizes it is really Christ Himself who baptizes (21).

    The Knights of the Holy Eucharist 2009

  • Buddle baptizes Christopher Bearce, far right, and two friends before they leave for boot camp after joining the Marines.

    Reggie Buddle 2010

  • I'm too concerned that every nuanced exposition of the subordinate role of women runs contrary to everything that seems plain and clear to me about the Gospel, and, worse, that it in small or big ways baptizes a world culture that continues to oppress women simply because they are not men.

    Christopher Cocca: The Oldest Injustice Christopher Cocca 2011

  • Theistic evolution takes the Darwinian of the biological world and baptizes it, identifying this picture with the way God created life.

    Blast From the Past 2010

  • I'm too concerned that every nuanced exposition of the subordinate role of women runs contrary to everything that seems plain and clear to me about the Gospel, and, worse, that it in small or big ways baptizes a world culture that continues to oppress women simply because they are not men.

    Christopher Cocca: The Oldest Injustice Christopher Cocca 2011

  • Theistic evolution takes the Darwinian of the biological world and baptizes it, identifying this picture with the way God created life.

    Blast From the Past 2010

  • The book has four narrators, including the minister who baptizes the woman on the very Sunday she will be murdered; the state's attorney who is investigating what she believes is a double homicide; the woman's 15-year-old daughter, now an orphan; and the author of wildly successful books about angels, who is herself the daughter of a domestic abuse cataclysm.

    Chris Bohjalian: 'Secrets of Eden': It's One Thing to Find Your Voice. It's Another to Find the Right Words 2010

  • The book has four narrators, including the minister who baptizes the woman on the very Sunday she will be murdered; the state's attorney who is investigating what she believes is a double homicide; the woman's 15-year-old daughter, now an orphan; and the author of wildly successful books about angels, who is herself the daughter of a domestic abuse cataclysm.

    'Secrets of Eden': It's One Thing to Find Your Voice. It's Another to Find the Right Words Chris Bohjalian 2010

  • It is surprising to have a member of a church that baptizes dead people by the hundreds of thousands by proxy without anyone's consent, worrying about "collectivism" as distinguished from "individual salvation" and deciding what is and is not a "perversion of the gospel of Jesus Christ as most Christians know it."

    Christopher Brauchli: Mormon Baptism of Dead Jews and Other Theological Nonsense 2010

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