单词 | baptism |
释义 | baptismn. 1. The action or ceremony of baptizing; immersion of a person in water, or application of water by pouring or sprinkling, as a religious rite, symbolical of moral or spiritual purification or regeneration, and, as a Christian ordinance, betokening initiation into the Church. name of baptism: see baptismal adj. name.With possessive and objective genitive; e.g. ‘John's baptism,’ that administered by John, ‘the jailer's baptism,’ that received by the jailer. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > baptism > [noun] fulloghteOE fulghtningc1175 baptizing1297 Christendomc1300 christeningc1330 baptism1377 fullowinga1387 illumination1398 baptizea1400 to have Christenheada1450 baptiste1460 baptization1470 fountain1549 washinga1557 tincture1612 baptizement1818 baptistery1851 α. β. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xviii. 375 Bretheren in blode & in baptesme.1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes iii. xxi. 219 A madde man..may not receyue batesme.1528 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i, in Wks. 167/1 Ipsum audite saide the father at the tyme of his baptisme.1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 3 a The purchaser be named by the name of baptism and his surname.1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xlii. 274 Baptisme is the Sacrament of Allegeance, of them that are to be received into the Kingdome of God.1851 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1863) 4th Ser. 25 Christian Baptism..on God's part is an authoritative revelation of his Paternity; on man's part it is an acceptance of God's covenant.c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. iii. 7 Seeynge many of Pharisees..commynge to his bapteme. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12726 In þis hali Ion time Was lagh bigun neu of baptim. c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 626 In þe water of baptem þay dyssente. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clv. f. lxxxiiiv After he had clothyd them with the Mantell of baptym. 1521 Bp. J. Fisher Wks. i. 334 The sacramente of baptyme. 1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Epitome (1843) 28 For baptim doth not contain the perfection of religion. 2. figurative. a. (In various senses; cf. baptize v. 2.) Also applied to the death by violence, or ‘baptism of blood,’ of unbaptized martyrs, and to the ceremony of blessing and naming church bells and ships. (Cf. Du Cange Campanas Baptizari.) ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > [noun] > inauguration > naming or dedicating baptismc1384 christening1528 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke xii. 50 Sothli I haue to be baptisid with baptym. 1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. i. 11 They vpon their foundation haue builded the baptisme of belles and shippes. 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. H6 Those Maiden showrs, Which, by the peepe of day, doe strew A Baptime o're the flowers. 1860 A. Edersheim tr. J. H. Kurtz Hist. Christian Church I. §54 The baptism of blood in martyrdom. 1885 N.E.D. at Baptism Mod. A severe baptism of suffering. b. baptism of fire n. [after ecclesiastical Greek βάπτισμα πυρός (e.g. Macarius Ægyptius Hom. xxvii. 17; cf. Matthew iii. 11)] (a) the grace of the Holy Spirit imparted through baptism, as distinguished from the sacrament or rite; (b) martyrdom, esp. by fire; (c) the undergoing of any severe ordeal or painful experience; (d) a soldier's first experience ‘under fire’ in battle (so French baptême de feu). Cf. fire baptism n. at fire n. and int. Compounds 1c. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > [noun] > action in war stroke of battle1525 action1579 the smell (also stink) of powder1786 baptism of fire1857 1822 B. E. O'Meara Napoleon in Exile I. 107 I love a brave soldier who has undergone, le baptéme du feu, whatever nation he may belong to.] 1857 G. A. Lawrence Guy Livingstone xiii It's only in their baptism of fire that the young ones shrink and start. 1881 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. I. ii. (at cited word) When during the Franco-German war of 1870, Prince Louis Napoleon..was first exposed, by direction of his father, Napoleon III, and with his own consent, to the fire of the enemy at Saarbrück, the event was called a ‘baptism of fire’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1377 |
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