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Baptism [fr. b'ptzeiv, Gk., to dip]. One of the two Sacraments of the Church of England, the other being the Supper of the Lord (Art. Xxv.). by the (English) Baptismal Fees Abolition Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. C. 36), it is rendered unlawful to demand any fee for the celebration or registration of baptism. See Canons, 68-70....
Baptismal
Pertaining to baptism as baptismal vows...
Baptismally
In a baptismal manner...
Births, Marriages, and Deaths
Births, Marriages, and Deaths. By the (English) Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 86), amended by the (English) Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1837 (7 Wm. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 22), a General Register Office is provided for keeping a register of births, deaths, and marriages in England. The Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1874 [37 & 38 (English) Vict. c. 88], amends the laws relating to the Registration of Births and Deaths in England in important particulars, and consolidates the law relating to the registration of births and deaths at sea. This Act (s. 1) imposes upon the father and mother of a child, and in their default, upon the occupier of a house in which to his knowledge a child is born, the duty of giving information to the registrar within 42 days. By s. 10 a corresponding obligation to register a death is imposed upon relatives, etc.By s. 203 of the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, births of any child alive or dead after the twenty-eighth week of ...
Baptistic
Of or for baptism baptismal...
Name
Name [fr. nomen, Lat.; nom, Fr.; or namo, Goth.; nama, Sax.; naem, Dut.], the discriminative appellation of an individual.Proper names are either Christian names, as being given at baptism, or surnames, from the father, 4 Rep. 170.A Christian name may be altered at confirmation with consent of the bishop, and the bishop is directed by a Constitution of 1281 to change 'wanton names' at confirmation. See Blunt's Church Law, 2nd ed. at p. 60, where two post-Reformation instances are given of a bishop changing Christian name at confirmation, and it is said to be 'believed that cases still occur where this is done.'Marriage confers a name upon a woman, which is not lost by her divorce, and she can acquire another only by obtaining it by repute obliterating her name by marriage, see Fendall v. Goldsmid, (1877) 2 PD 263. As to retainer of a title, see Cowley v. Cowley, 1901 AC 450.Any one may take on himself whatever surname or as many surnames as he pleases, without an (English) Act of Parli...
Baptism
The act of baptizing the application of water to a person as a sacrament or religious ceremony by which he is initiated into the visible church of Christ This is performed by immersion sprinkling or pouring...
Baptistery
In early times a separate building usually polygonal used for baptismal services Small churches were often changed into baptisteries when larger churches were built near...
Baptization
Baptism...
Baptize
To administer the sacrament of baptism to...
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