BaptismWordNet Explorer

a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction

the act of baptizing someone by pouring water on their head

the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare)

giving a Christian name at baptism

a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged