baptize

baptize
(亦作 -ise)
verb
  1. [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
  1. Middle English : via Old French from ecclesiastical Latin baptizare, from Greek baptizein 'immerse, baptize'
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