baptize

She wrote to the pope to express her fear that no priest would baptize her illegitimate baby.

This was why we resolved, at the time of our arrival, not to baptize any adults unless they were previously well catechized.

Father Biard went to the afflicted parent of the boy, and asked whether he might, with his consent, baptize the dying child.

"I baptize thee," broke the silence, time after time, amid the tiny splashes of falling water.

A well-known politician, who died only recently, was born in the village, and the old rector was called on to baptize him.

But it was not thought safe to baptize him in Galicia, so he was sent to Bellson, in Berlin, who baptized him in 1846.