baptize
verb (used with object)
to immerse in water or sprinkle or pour water on in the Christian rite of baptism.
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And even so babes are included in the general command of Baptism, that is, as soon as they are baptizable.
From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge