英语词汇“half-baptize”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	half-baptize
释义	ˈhalf-bapˈtize, v. trans. To baptize privately or without full rites, as a child in danger of death. 1836Dickens Sk. Boz ii, He got out of bed..to half-baptize a washerwoman's child in a slop-basin.1838― O. Twist ii, The child that was half-baptized, Oliver Twist, is nine years old to-day.1875Sussex Gloss. s.v., If you please, sir, will you be so good as to half-baptize the baby? So half-baptized ppl. a., baptized privately or without full rites; hence, semi-barbarous, (dial.) deficient in intelligence. 1795Southey Joan of Arc ii. Wks. (1853) 16 Irish Kerns, Ruffians half-clothed, half-human, half-baptized.1875Sussex Gloss. s.v., You must have been half-baptized to water those flowers when the sun was full on them.
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