baptism

• n. 洗礼；厳しいテスト

浸す」という語源のbaptから。キリスト教や他の宗教の重要な儀式を指す。火の洗礼を参照。

baptism (n.)

c. 1300, bapteme, from Old French batesme, bapteme (11c., Modern French baptême), from Latin baptismus, from Greek baptismos, noun of action from baptizein (see baptize). The -s- restored in later 14c.

Figurative sense is from late 14c. The Anglo-Saxons used fulluht in this sense (John the Baptist was Iohannes se Fulluhtere). Phrase baptism of fire "a soldier's first experience of battle" (1857) translates French baptême de feu; the phrase originally was ecclesiastical Greek baptisma pyros and meant "the grace of the Holy Spirit as imparted through baptism." Later it was used of martyrdom, especially by burning.

1. All the family attended the baptism of the first grandchild.

家族全員が初孫の洗礼式に参加した。

2.The Christian ceremony of baptism is a symbolic act.

キリスト教の洗礼式は象徴的なやり方だ。

3.That was my baptism into weather wisdom.

それは私が初めて天気を予測したのです。

4.It was Mark 's first introduction to royal duties and he came through his baptism of fire unscathed.

マークが皇室の仕事を担当するのは初めてだが、厳しい試練に耐えた。

5. Baptism is one of the sacraments in the Christian Church.

洗礼はキリスト教会の聖事の一つである。