Christen vs Denominate - What's the difference?
christen | denominate |
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.
To name; to designate.
* Hume
To express in a monetary unit.
As verbs the difference between christen and denominate
is that christen is to perform the religious act of the baptism, to baptise while denominate is to name; to designate.christen
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Alternative forms
* (dialectal) *Verb
(en verb)- Christen the thing what you will.
- (Jeremy Taylor)
Anagrams
* ----denominate
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Verb
- Passions commonly denominating selfish.
- Oil is denominated in dollars, so changes in the strength of the dollar affect oil prices everywhere.