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Plunge :: Plunge (v. t.) To baptize by immersion.

Mersion :: Mersion (n.) Immersion.

Dip :: Dip (v. t.) To immerse for baptism; to baptize by 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..

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..

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..

Skiver :: Skiver (n.) An inferior quality of leather, made of split sheepskin, tanned by immersion in sumac, and dyed. It is used for hat linings, pocketbooks, bookbinding, etc..

Baptist :: Baptist (n.) One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion. See Anabaptist..

Bathe :: Bathe (n.) The immersion of the body in water; as to take one's usual bathe.

Immerse :: Immerse (v. t.) To baptize by immersion.

Bathe :: Bathe (v. t.) To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath..

Infusion :: Infusion (v. t.) The act of plunging or dipping into a fluid; immersion.

Souse :: Souse (v. t.) To drench, as by an immersion; to wet throughly..

Immersion :: Immersion (n.) Submersion in water for the purpose of Christian baptism, as, practiced by the Baptists..

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.

Hydrophane :: Hydrophane (n.) A semitranslucent variety of opal that becomes translucent or transparent on immersion in water.

Drown :: Drown (v. t.) To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.

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 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..

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