society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > parenthood > [verb (transitive)] > be godparent to (2)
to stand at font (for a person) and variants: to be a godparent or sponsor for a person at baptism. Obsolete.
intransitive. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). With for. To act as a godparent or sponsor to (a godchild) at a baptism. Cf. main sense 10c(b).