Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to baptize
Participle: baptized
Gerund: baptizing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | baptize |
| you | baptize |
| he;she;it | baptizes |
| we | baptize |
| you | baptize |
| they | baptize |
Perfect
| I | have baptized |
| you | have baptized |
| he;she;it | has baptized |
| we | have baptized |
| you | have baptized |
| they | have baptized |
Past
| I | baptized |
| you | baptized |
| he;she;it | baptized |
| we | baptized |
| you | baptized |
| they | baptized |
Pluperfect
| I | had baptized |
| you | had baptized |
| he;she;it | had baptized |
| we | had baptized |
| you | had baptized |
| they | had baptized |
Future
| I | will baptize |
| you | will baptize |
| he;she;it | will baptize |
| we | will baptize |
| you | will baptize |
| they | will baptize |
Future Perfect
| I | will have baptized |
| you | will have baptized |
| he;she;it | will have baptized |
| we | will have baptized |
| you | will have baptized |
| they | will have baptized |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | baptize |
| you | baptize |
| he;she;it | baptize |
| we | baptize |
| you | baptize |
| they | baptize |
Perfect
| I | have baptized |
| you | have baptized |
| he;she;it | have baptized |
| we | have baptized |
| you | have baptized |
| they | have baptized |
Imperfect
| I | baptized |
| you | baptized |
| he;she;it | baptized |
| we | baptized |
| you | baptized |
| they | baptized |
Pluperfect
| I | had baptized |
| you | had baptized |
| he;she;it | had baptized |
| we | had baptized |
| you | had baptized |
| they | had baptized |
Conditional
Present
| I | would baptize |
| you | would baptize |
| he;she;it | would baptize |
| we | would baptize |
| you | would baptize |
| they | would baptize |
Perfect
| I | would have baptized |
| you | would have baptized |
| he;she;it | would have baptized |
| we | would have baptized |
| you | would have baptized |
| they | would have baptized |
Imperative
| you | baptize |
| we | Let's baptize |
| you | baptize |
Verbs conjugated like 'baptize'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'baptize'
baptise,
baize,
capsize,
captive,
debaptize,
peptize,
rebaptize,
unbaptize,
acetize,
agatize,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1297, from O.Fr.
baptizier (11c.), from L.
baptizare, from Gk.
baptizein "to immerse," in ecclesiastical language, "baptize," from
baptein "to dip, steep, dye, color." Christian baptism originally consisted in full immersion.
Baptist as member of a Protestant sect that believes in adult baptism by immersion first recorded 1654; their opponents called them
anabaptists. Phrase
baptism of fire (1822) translates Fr.
baptême de feu and is a reference to a soldier's first experience under fire in battle; but the phrase originally was ecclesiastical Gk.
baptisma pyros and meant "the grace of the Holy Spirit as imparted through baptism." Later it was used of martyrdom, especially by fire.
2. From Middle English baptisen, baptizen, from Old French baptiser, batisier, from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin baptizāre, from Ancient Greek βαπτίζω (baptízō, “to immerse, plunge, baptize”). See: Middle English '
baptisen'.
Verbs referencing "baptize"
Swahili
batiza.
Sample Sentences
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[...] in her conscientious endeavor to do her duty by her _ilhve_, that the child rapidly grew in grace and in favor with the family and neighborhood. At the age of womanhood, she was, by her own request, baptized, and became a member of the Christian church in the place; and showed so much intelligence, activity and zeal, and desire to do good in the world, that she was at last recommended, and approved as a [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)