baptism

Noun
  1. A Christian sacrament signifying spiritual cleansing and rebirth (synset 101039851)
    "most churches baptize infants but some insist on adult baptism"
    is a type of: sacrament - a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction
    subtypes:
    • affusion - the act of baptizing someone by pouring water on their head
    • aspersion, sprinkling - the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare)
    • christening - giving a Christian name at baptism
    • immersion - a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged

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