单词 | baptistery |
释义 | baptistery/ˈbaptɪst(ə)ri![]() (also baptistry /ˈbaptɪstri/) noun (plural baptisteries or baptistries) 1The part of a church used for baptism.The Reverend Kyle Lake, 33, was standing in water in a baptistery at University Baptist Church when he was electrocuted on Sunday morning....
1.1 historical A building next to a church, used for baptism.It is in Ravenna that the earliest mosaics are preserved, in temple after temple, in museums, presbyteries, baptistries and churches....
1.2(In a Baptist chapel) a sunken receptacle used for baptism by total immersion.I could open the baptistry and fill it with water and point a gun at someone's head and say, ‘You are being baptised or I'll shoot you dead.’...
OriginMiddle English: from Old French baptistere, via ecclesiastical Latin from ecclesiastical Greek baptistērion, from baptizein 'immerse, baptize'. |
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