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The Collaborative International Dictionary
baptise

baptise \bap"tise\ v. t. same as baptize.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
baptise

chiefly British English spelling of baptize; for spelling, see -ize. Related: Baptised; baptising.

Wiktionary
baptise

alt. 1 To sprinkle or pour water over, or to immerse in water, as a spiritual cleansing process in the rite of Christian baptism. 2 (context figuratively English) To dedicate or christen. vb. 1 To sprinkle or pour water over, or to immerse in water, as a spiritual cleansing process in the rite of Christian baptism. 2 (context figuratively English) To dedicate or christen.

WordNet
baptise

v. administer baptism to; "The parents had the child baptized" [syn: baptize, christen]

Usage examples of "baptise".

He was actually baptised a Catholic but took on the mantle of Rastaman just after his seventeenth birthday, more as a fashion statement than a religious belief.

Englishman you must have been baptised, or sprinkled, or immersed, and your father and mother must belong to church or chapel.

To walk the same path your fifty-times great-grandmother walked, to baptise your child where you were baptised, and your mother, and her mother.

Christian names they were baptised with and calling themselves Ali and Muhammad reminds me, I looked into your Cratylus.

But Anna had explained that the child had needed to be baptised immediately, and he had seen no reason to doubt her .

Bloom and Stephen been baptised, and where and by whom, cleric or layman?

Where better to baptise himself into that new faith than here, in the blood of the enemy?

Go with thy brother now, and thee baptise, And make thee clene, so that thou mowe biholde The aungels face of which thy brother tolde.

That worthy, who was evidently a true sportsman at heart, was liberally baptising with Rangoon oil an old and much rusted Martini carbine, whose ejector refused to work.

They liked how he got at them Catholics too, baptising their young before they're hardly off the tit I mean my God, respecting their intelligence?

His great-grandson (the grandfather of my correspondent), being converted to Methodism by some wayside preacher, discarded in a moment his name, his old nature, and his political principles, and with the zeal of a proselyte sealed his adherence to the Protestant Succession by baptising his next son George.

Sunday and they might have passed, accepted a day with no one to plug and unplug the humming sweepers and turn the buttons on the stoves as a day off a vacation or maybe an occasion like a baptising or a picnic or a big funeral but this was Monday, a new day and a new week, rest and the need to fill time and conquer boredom was over, children fresh for school and husband and father for store or office or to stand around the Western Union desk where the hourly cotton reports came in.

The bishop suggested a compromise: the church was built halfway between the Coteau Vert and the Boulevard Maritime, on the Place de la Halle‑aux‑Morues which was baptised Place Sainte‑Cecile‑de‑la‑Mer.

De Lancre, Tableau de l’inconstance des mauvais agnes et demons, Paris, 1912, has: pour ne confessor iamais le secret de l’escole, on faict au sabbat une paste de millet noir, auec de la poudre du foyer de quelque enfant non baptise qu’on faict secher, puis meslant cette poudre avec ladicte paste, elle a cette vertu de tacitrunite.