Baptise vs Christen - What's the difference?
baptise | christen |
To sprinkle or pour water over, or to immerse in water, as a spiritual cleansing process in the rite of Christian baptism.
(figuratively) To dedicate or christen.
To perform the religious act of the baptism, to baptise.
To name.
* Bishop Burnet
(obsolete) To Christianize.
(colloquial, usually, Christian) To use for the first time.
As verbs the difference between baptise and christen
is that baptise is to sprinkle or pour water over, or to immerse in water, as a spiritual cleansing process in the rite of Christian baptism while christen is to perform the religious act of the baptism, to baptise.baptise
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* baptizeVerb
christen
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* (dialectal) *Verb
(en verb)- Christen the thing what you will.
- (Jeremy Taylor)