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"(\u02c8)bap\u00a6tistik",
"\u00f7-ab\u00a6t-"
],
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"adjective"
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": a genus of swimming birds from the Cretaceous of Kansas that is imperfectly known but probably related to Hesperornis":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Greek baptein to dip + -ornis":""
},
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"bap\u02c8t\u022frn\u0259\u0307s"
],
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"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"baptisia":{
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"definitions":{
": any of a genus ( Baptisia ) of North American plants of the legume family having showy papilionaceous flowers similar in form to those of the pea plant":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"On a precociously hot day in May, Avent takes me on a golf cart tour past fields of arums, lycoris, trilliums, crinums, epimediums, colocasias, baptisias and gingers \u2014 the botany begins to blur after a few hours under the beating Carolina sun. \u2014 Adrian Higgins, Washington Post , 17 Sep. 2019",
"Unscathed (for reasons beyond my ken) include baptisia , clematis recta, and of course the sturdy-as-stone conifers. \u2014 Bonnie Blodgett, Twin Cities , 17 June 2017"
],
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"circa 1868, in the meaning defined above":""
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"New Latin, genus name, from Greek baptisis a dipping, from baptein":""
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"bap-\u02c8ti-zh(\u0113-)\u0259"
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"noun"
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": a Christian sacrament marked by ritual use of water and admitting the recipient to the Christian community":[],
": a non-Christian rite using water for ritual purification":[],
": an act, experience, or ordeal by which one is purified, sanctified, initiated, or named":[],
": purification by or submergence in Spirit":[]
},
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"There were over 100 baptisms at our church last year.",
"He received the sacrament of baptism as an infant.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Among the keepsakes are her baptism water, a tiny pink-and-white knit beanie, final photos, and a card listing Everleigh\u2019s birth details, ink-stamped with her miniature footprints. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 23 June 2022",
"And one of the references was, in fact, that baptism scene from The Godfather. \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 1 June 2022",
"Vladimir Putin says, because of a baptism a thousand years ago, or because of bloodshed during World War II. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Apr. 2022",
"The LDS Church did issue a public apology on behalf of a member who had performed proxy baptism rituals for the parents of Simon Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor and Jewish rights advocate. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 31 Mar. 2022",
"More:The Catholic Church baptism crisis is manufactured. \u2014 Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press , 14 Mar. 2022",
"The next day, McCullers and his wife Kara attended the baptism for little Kylo with the McCullers serving as Kylo\u2019s godparents. \u2014 Matt Young, Chron , 22 Feb. 2022",
"The trailer sees the detective examining the crime scene, juxtaposed with scenes of a baptism and life in small-town Utah. \u2014 Wilson Chapman, Variety , 23 Feb. 2022",
"Her tenure has been something of a baptism by fire, as TIAA participants worry about their retirement savings amid ballooning inflation and a sputtering stock market. \u2014 Fortune , 20 May 2022"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
},
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"Middle English baptisme":""
},
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"\u02c8bap-\u02ccti-z\u0259m",
"especially Southern \u02c8bab-"
],
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"inaugural",
"inauguration",
"induction",
"initiation",
"installation",
"installment",
"instalment",
"investiture",
"investment"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-180439",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
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": a part of a church or formerly a separate building used for baptism":[]
},
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In a frenzy of competitive energy, the city\u2019s guilds lavished attention on its unfinished cathedral, its neighboring baptistery and the former granary-turned-church of Orsanmichele. \u2014 Sebastian Smee, Washington Post , 13 May 2022",
"Its sixth-century baptistery is said to be one of the best examples of its kind in the country. \u2014 Julia Buckley, CNN , 1 Feb. 2022",
"The men changed clothes in a dressing room on one side of the baptistery ; women on the other. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Nov. 2021",
"There is no longer a permanent pastor, though, and the full-immersion baptistery has fallen out of use. \u2014 New York Times , 16 Oct. 2021",
"The Neonian Baptistry, one of eight UNESCO monuments in the city, is considered one of the most complete surviving examples of an early Christian baptistery . \u2014 Irene S. Levine, Forbes , 24 Sep. 2021",
"Built on ruins of a 4th-century Roman temple, the building became the city\u2019s cathedral in 1059 and eventually the official baptistery in 1128. \u2014 Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian Magazine , 8 Apr. 2021",
"Amid alleys crammed with gelato shops, caf\u00e9s, and souvenir stores, fifth- and sixth-century churches, mausoleums, and baptisteries stand out with their ochre and fawn facades. \u2014 Prathap Nair, National Geographic , 20 Aug. 2019",
"Visitors can purchase combination tickets that include entrance to multiple attractions, including the baptistery . \u2014 Prathap Nair, National Geographic , 20 Aug. 2019"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"especially Southern \u02c8bab-",
"\u02c8bap-t\u0259-str\u0113"
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"Both developments were baptized under last season's conditions of scanty snow \u2026",
"\u2014 New York Times"
],
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": to administer baptism (see baptism sense 1 ) to":[
"baptize a child in the Episcopal Church",
"was baptized a Catholic as an infant"
],
": to give a name to (as at baptism) : christen":[
"They baptized their son \"John\" after the baby's grandfather."
],
": to purify or cleanse spiritually especially by a purging (see purge entry 1 sense 1 ) experience or ordeal":[
"\u2026 baptized with pain and rapture, tears and fire \u2026",
"\u2014 Sidney Lanier"
]
},
"examples":[
"The priest baptized the baby.",
"She was baptized at the age of 20.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Janak reassured him that God recognized the family\u2019s intention to baptize the boy. \u2014 Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News , 29 May 2022",
"Karen and Michael Hidde watched the flight nurse baptize their baby, sprinkling water on him from a small shell. \u2014 Mark Johnson, jsonline.com , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Only priests could baptize , ordain, perform the sacrament of the Eucharist and give last rites. \u2014 Lisa Bitel, Smithsonian Magazine , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Fans are dissecting the hallucination\u2014which saw Nate impregnate Cassie and then watch as a pool-side Cal Jacobs, his father, proceeded to erotically baptize her. \u2014 Josh St. Clair, Men's Health , 19 Jan. 2022",
"James reacted by putting his fingers in Max\u2019s water and splashing him as if to baptize him into James\u2019s unique religion of belligerent assholery. \u2014 Brian Moylan, Vulture , 30 Sep. 2021",
"The woman said Hogan swam over to her and offered to baptize her children. \u2014 al , 28 July 2021",
"The woman said Hogan swam over to her and offered to baptize her children. \u2014 al , 28 July 2021",
"The woman said Hogan swam over to her and offered to baptize her children. \u2014 al , 28 July 2021"
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
},
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French baptiser , from Late Latin baptizare , from Greek baptizein to dip, baptize, from baptein to dip, dye; akin to Old Norse kvefja to quench":""
},
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"bap-\u02c8t\u012bz",
"especially Southern bab-\u02c8t\u012bz",
"or \u02c8bab-\u02cct\u012bz",
"\u02c8bap-\u02cct\u012bz"
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"Both developments were baptized under last season's conditions of scanty snow \u2026",
"\u2014 New York Times"
],
": to administer baptism":[],
": to administer baptism (see baptism sense 1 ) to":[
"baptize a child in the Episcopal Church",
"was baptized a Catholic as an infant"
],
": to give a name to (as at baptism) : christen":[
"They baptized their son \"John\" after the baby's grandfather."
],
": to purify or cleanse spiritually especially by a purging (see purge entry 1 sense 1 ) experience or ordeal":[
"\u2026 baptized with pain and rapture, tears and fire \u2026",
"\u2014 Sidney Lanier"
]
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"examples":[
"The priest baptized the baby.",
"She was baptized at the age of 20.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Janak reassured him that God recognized the family\u2019s intention to baptize the boy. \u2014 Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News , 29 May 2022",
"Karen and Michael Hidde watched the flight nurse baptize their baby, sprinkling water on him from a small shell. \u2014 Mark Johnson, jsonline.com , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Only priests could baptize , ordain, perform the sacrament of the Eucharist and give last rites. \u2014 Lisa Bitel, Smithsonian Magazine , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Fans are dissecting the hallucination\u2014which saw Nate impregnate Cassie and then watch as a pool-side Cal Jacobs, his father, proceeded to erotically baptize her. \u2014 Josh St. Clair, Men's Health , 19 Jan. 2022",
"James reacted by putting his fingers in Max\u2019s water and splashing him as if to baptize him into James\u2019s unique religion of belligerent assholery. \u2014 Brian Moylan, Vulture , 30 Sep. 2021",
"The woman said Hogan swam over to her and offered to baptize her children. \u2014 al , 28 July 2021",
"The woman said Hogan swam over to her and offered to baptize her children. \u2014 al , 28 July 2021",
"The woman said Hogan swam over to her and offered to baptize her children. \u2014 al , 28 July 2021"
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
},
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French baptiser , from Late Latin baptizare , from Greek baptizein to dip, baptize, from baptein to dip, dye; akin to Old Norse kvefja to quench":""
},
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"bap-\u02c8t\u012bz",
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"or \u02c8bab-\u02cct\u012bz",
"\u02c8bap-\u02cct\u012bz"
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"adjective"
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": of or relating to the idol Baphomet":[]
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"\u00a6baf\u0259\u00a6metik"
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"Baphomet , idol the Templars were accused of worshiping (from French, alteration of Mahomet Muhammad \u2020632 Arab prophet, from Arabic Mu\u1e25ammad ) + English -ic":""
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"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a small genus of trees and shrubs (family Leguminosae) native to tropical Africa and Madagascar having unifoliolate leaves and bracteolate flowers with a sheathing calyx and 10 free stamens \u2014 see camwood":[]
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"New Latin, from Greek baph\u0113 dye (from baptein to dip, dye) + New Latin -ia":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-185056"
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"definitions":{
"town in northern France south of Arras population 4301":[]
},
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"b\u00e4-\u02c8p\u014dm",
"ba-"
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": a small bun or roll":[],
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"\u02c8bap"
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"origin unknown":"Noun"
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"circa 1600, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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"origin unknown":"Noun"
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"circa 1600, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-000923"
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"baptism of fire":{
"type":[
"noun phrase"
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": a spiritual baptism by a gift of the Holy Spirit":[
"\u2014 often used in allusion to Acts 2:3\u20134; Matthew 3:11 (Revised Standard Version)"
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"first_known_use":{
"1625, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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},
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"also \u02c8bab-dist",
"\u02c8bap-tist",
"especially Southern \u02c8bab-tist"
],
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"David Arnett, a baptist minister and an uncle of the bride, officiated at an outdoor ceremony in front of about 50 guests, most of them family members. \u2014 New York Times , 10 Dec. 2021",
"The rally was held at a baptist church in Lithonia. \u2014 Sydney Shea, Washington Examiner , 29 Dec. 2020",
"Error 0: For many baptists , the largest denomination in the county, the change in worship has been a fairly smooth one. \u2014 David Taylor, Houston Chronicle , 7 Apr. 2020",
"Although this isn't entirely unusual with independent baptists (including the Dugggars of TLC's 19 Kids and Counting fame) Barry's family has a number of strict rules in their home. \u2014 Laura Hanrahan, Woman's Day , 6 Jan. 2020",
"In an upset, Republican incumbent Rep. Robert Pittenger lost his bid for a third term to Mark Harris, a former baptist pastor, by less than three percentage points. \u2014 Christianna Silva, Teen Vogue , 9 May 2018",
"Jones, who is known for prosecuting members of the Ku Klux Klan for the 1963 bombing of a black baptist church in Birmingham, is viewed as the Democratic front-runner. \u2014 Clare Foran, The Atlantic , 15 Aug. 2017",
"While several Southern Baptist leaders have served on Trump\u2019s evangelical advisory board, many younger Southern Baptists \u2014 including the denomination\u2019s Ethics and Religious Liberty president Russell Moore \u2014 vocally opposed his candidacy. \u2014 Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Washington Post , 14 June 2017"
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"noun"
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": the baptism of a living person as proxy for one who has died unbaptized (as practiced in modern times by Mormons)":[]
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"baptismal regeneration":{
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": the theological doctrine that regeneration is effected in and through Christian baptism":[]
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"verb"
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"baptize a child in the Episcopal Church",
"was baptized a Catholic as an infant"
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": to purify or cleanse spiritually especially by a purging (see purge entry 1 sense 1 ) experience or ordeal":[
"\u2026 baptized with pain and rapture, tears and fire \u2026",
"\u2014 Sidney Lanier"
],
": initiate":[
"Both developments were baptized under last season's conditions of scanty snow \u2026",
"\u2014 New York Times"
],
": to give a name to (as at baptism) : christen":[
"They baptized their son \"John\" after the baby's grandfather."
],
": to administer baptism":[]
},
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"bap-\u02c8t\u012bz",
"especially Southern bab-\u02c8t\u012bz",
"\u02c8bap-\u02cct\u012bz",
"or \u02c8bab-\u02cct\u012bz"
],
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"The priest baptized the baby.",
"She was baptized at the age of 20.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Janak reassured him that God recognized the family\u2019s intention to baptize the boy. \u2014 Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News , 29 May 2022",
"Karen and Michael Hidde watched the flight nurse baptize their baby, sprinkling water on him from a small shell. \u2014 Mark Johnson, jsonline.com , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Only priests could baptize , ordain, perform the sacrament of the Eucharist and give last rites. \u2014 Lisa Bitel, Smithsonian Magazine , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Fans are dissecting the hallucination\u2014which saw Nate impregnate Cassie and then watch as a pool-side Cal Jacobs, his father, proceeded to erotically baptize her. \u2014 Josh St. Clair, Men's Health , 19 Jan. 2022",
"James reacted by putting his fingers in Max\u2019s water and splashing him as if to baptize him into James\u2019s unique religion of belligerent assholery. \u2014 Brian Moylan, Vulture , 30 Sep. 2021",
"The woman said Hogan swam over to her and offered to baptize her children. \u2014 al , 28 July 2021",
"The woman said Hogan swam over to her and offered to baptize her children. \u2014 al , 28 July 2021",
"The woman said Hogan swam over to her and offered to baptize her children. \u2014 al , 28 July 2021"
],
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"Middle English, from Anglo-French baptiser , from Late Latin baptizare , from Greek baptizein to dip, baptize, from baptein to dip, dye; akin to Old Norse kvefja to quench":""
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":""
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"noun"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Until last year, John Henry Newman, as he is known by his baptismal name , was studying to become a priest at a Roman Catholic seminary in Yangon. \u2014 New York Times , 30 Mar. 2022",
"She was given the name Sister Seraphia and later returned to her baptismal name , Carol Estelle. \u2014 Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com , 22 May 2021",
"These homages to Athelstan continued even through the series finale, in which the monk\u2019s son, Alfred (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo), gave the Viking\u2019s son, Hvitserk (Marco Ils\u00f8), the baptismal name of Athelstan in one of the show\u2019s stirring final scenes. \u2014 Sadie Gennis, Vulture , 11 Jan. 2021",
"He was later baptized and took the same baptismal name as Hakamada\u2019s, Paulo, and added Miki, the name of a Japanese martyr. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Nov. 2019",
"At age 12, Toni, known then as Chloe Wofford, converted to Catholicism and selected Anthony as her baptismal name . \u2014 Ekemini Uwan, The Denver Post , 7 Aug. 2019"
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"first_known_use":{
"1711, in the meaning defined above":""
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"noun"
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": father":[]
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"\u02c8b\u0259\u02ccp\u00fc",
"\u02c8b\u00e4-"
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