Baptize \Bap*tize"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Baptized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Baptizing}.] [F. baptiser, L. baptizare, fr. Gr. bapti`zein. See {Baptism}.] 1. To administer the sacrament of baptism to.
2. To christen (because a name is given to infants at their baptism); to give a name to; to name.
I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo. --Shak.
3. To sanctify; to consecrate.
His marriage to a non-Christian and his refusal to baptize his two daughters automatically excommunicated him from the church of his ancestry.
With male priests denied permission to go to Macao, Li was authorized to baptize, marry, bury and eventually even distribute Holy Communion.
For decades, thousands in Nigeria and Ghana who had read Mormon books and tracts implored the church to send missionaries to baptize them.