baptism (n.)
- acceptance
- admission
- admittance
- affusion
- appellation
- aspersion
- baptistery
- bath
- bathing
- burial
- calling
- christening
- confirmation
- dampening
- definition
- deluge
- denomination
- designation
- dip
- dipping
- dousing
- duck
- ducking
- enlistment
- enrollment
- flooding
- font
- identification
- immersion
- inauguration
- induction
- infusion
- initiation
- installation
- instatement
- intromission
- inundation
- investiture
- irrigation
- matrimony
- moistening
- naming
- ordination
- penance
- rinsing
- sinking
- souse
- sousing
- spattering
- splashing
- splattering
- spraying
- sprinkling
- submergence
- submersion
- watering
- wetting
Fall on me like a silent dew,
Or like those maiden showers
Which, by the peep of day, do strew
A baptism o'er the flowers.
