Definition of "baptizing" [baptizing]

• Present participle of baptize. (verb)

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• "Now. whether plunging the body into water, or pouring water upon it was the likelieft emblem o r this effu - fion of the Spirit, let the reader judge; eipecially fince $a*l£u, the word con - ftantly ufed for baptizing, Ggnifies any fort of warning, and often fprihkling; not being - retrained to dipping, as its primitive (fla*TSj) is but this I a ft word is never ufed to exprefs baptizing*"
• "And this way of pouring water upon them, moft naturally fignified thrift's baptizing them with the Holy Ghoft, and with fire, which John fpoke of. as prefigured by his baptizing* with water, fver.ti. and Mark i."
• "He tells reporter Peter Clottey from South Africa's capital, Pretoria that the SADC decision amounts to what he called baptizing the devil in President Mugabe."