Topic: CHRISTIANITY
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| Date: | 1200-1300 |
| Language: | Old French |
| Origin: | baptiser, from Late Latin, from Greek baptizein 'to dip, baptize', from baptein 'to dip' |
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bap‧tize also baptise British English
[transitive]
[transitive]1RRC to perform the ceremony of baptism on someone [↪ christen]
2RRC to accept someone as a member of a particular Christian church by a ceremony of baptism : 
He was baptized a Roman Catholic.
He was baptized a Roman Catholic.3RRC to give a child a name in a baptism ceremony : She was baptized Jane.
She was baptized Jane.
