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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..

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..

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

Hydrophanous :: Hydrophanous (a.) Made transparent by immersion in water.

Mersion :: Mersion (n.) Immersion.

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

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.

Immersionist :: Immersionist (n.) One who holds the doctrine that immersion is essential to Christian baptism.

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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