Baptize

To baptize a person is to admit her or him to membership of the Christian religion. There are many further subtleties of meaning, practice and belief that lie behind the simple definition - and that may be disputed between different denominations. What is written here is intended as a simple outline fro those that know nothing of the matter.

The ceremony of baptism (the noun to do with the verb 'to baptize')

-ise - -ize