Definition of immersion

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Immersion (n.) The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping; as, the immersion of Achilles in the Styx..

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Immersionist :: Immersionist (n.) One who holds the doctrine that immersion is essential to Christian baptism.
Infusion :: Infusion (v. t.) The act of plunging or dipping into a fluid; immersion.
Scald :: Scald (v. t.) To burn with hot liquid or steam; to pain or injure by contact with, or immersion in, any hot fluid; as, to scald the hand..
Whelm :: Whelm (v. t.) To cover with water or other fluid; to cover by immersion in something that envelops on all sides; to overwhelm; to ingulf.
Immersion :: Immersion (n.) The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping; as, the immersion of Achilles in the Styx..
Immerse :: Immerse (v. t.) To baptize by immersion.
Hydrophane :: Hydrophane (n.) A semitranslucent variety of opal that becomes translucent or transparent on immersion in water.
Souse :: Souse (v. t.) To drench, as by an immersion; to wet throughly..
Mersion :: Mersion (n.) Immersion.
Hydrophanous :: Hydrophanous (a.) Made transparent by immersion in water.
Adipocere :: Adipocere (n.) A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration..
Christian :: Christian (n.) One of a Christian denomination which rejects human creeds as bases of fellowship, and sectarian names. They are congregational in church government, and baptize by immersion. They are also called Disciples of Christ, and Campbellites..
Immersion :: Immersion (n.) Submersion in water for the purpose of Christian baptism, as, practiced by the Baptists..
Dip :: Dip (v. t.) To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion.
Plunge :: Plunge (v. t.) To baptize by immersion.
Immersion :: Immersion (n.) The dissapearance of a celestail body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite; -- opposed to emersion..
Christian :: Christian (n.) One of a sect (called Christian Connection) of open-communion immersionists. The Bible is their only authoritative rule of faith and practice.
Immersion :: Immersion (n.) The state of being overhelmed or deeply absorbed; deep engagedness.
Baptism :: Baptism (v. i.) The act of baptizing; the application of water to a person, as a sacrament or religious ceremony, by which he is initiated into the visible church of Christ. This is performed by immersion, sprinkling, or pouring..
Bathe :: Bathe (v. t.) To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath..
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