[with obj. and often with complement]administer baptism to (someone); christen 给(某人)施洗礼;洗礼时命名为 he was baptized Joshua. 他受洗礼并被命名乔舒亚。 ■admit (someone) into a specified Church by baptism 施洗并接受(某人)入教 Mark had been baptized a Catholic. 马克曾受洗成为一名天主教徒。 ■give a name or nickname to 命名;昵称为 he baptized the science of narrative ‘narratology’. 他把叙述科学命名为“叙述学”。
语源
Middle English : via Old French from ecclesiastical Latin baptizare, from Greek baptizein 'immerse, baptize'