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baptize

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bap·tize / ˈbapˌtīz; bapˈtīz/ • v. [tr.] administer baptism to (someone); christen: he was baptized Joshua. ∎ admit (someone) into a specified church by baptism: Mark had been baptized a Catholic. ∎ give a name or nickname to: he baptized the science of narrative “narratology.”

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