affusion

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | 271 words | Copyright

affusion. The method of Baptism now ordinarily practised in the W. Church whereby water is poured over the head of the candidate. It did not become general until the later Middle Ages, immersion and submersion being the usual methods in earlier times. See also ASPERSION.

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