BAPTIZED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does baptized mean? 

• BAPTIZED (adjective)
  The adjective BAPTIZED has 1 sense:

1. having undergone the Christian ritual of baptism

  Familiarity information: BAPTIZED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAPTIZED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having undergone the Christian ritual of baptism

Synonyms:

baptised; baptized

Antonym:

unbaptized (not having undergone the Christian ritual of baptism)

 Context examples 

Do come and help me or I shall die! and the exhausted housewife cast herself upon his breast, giving him a sweet welcome in every sense of the word, for her pinafore had been baptized at the same time as the floor.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I heaved them up, deluged the bed and its occupant, flew back to my own room, brought my own water-jug, baptized the couch afresh, and, by God's aid, succeeded in extinguishing the flames which were devouring it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)