Definitions of baptism

1. The sacrament in which immersion or sprinkling with water symbolizes the washing away of sin, and which admits to membership in the Christian church; the act of sprinkling or immersing as a sacrament, or of being sprinkled or immersed; any experience by which one is cleansed spiritually, or any sanctifying ordeal; as, the adventurer here suffered his baptism of fire.

2. Immersion in or sprinkling with water as a religious ceremony.

3. Use of water, as a sacramental rite.

4. The initiatory rite or sacrament of the Christian Church, by solemn immersion in or sprinkling with water.

5. The initiatory sacrament of the Christian religion; the dipping among water, or sprinkling with water.

6. BAPTISMAL.