Christen Definition

krĭsən
christened, christens
verb
christened, christens
To take into a Christian church by baptism; baptize.
Webster's New World
To give a name to at baptism.
Webster's New World
To give a name to (a ship being launched, etc.)
Webster's New World
To name.
Christened the kitten “Snowball.”
American Heritage
To name and dedicate ceremonially.
Christen a ship.
American Heritage
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Origin of Christen

  • Middle English cristnen from Old English cristnian from cristen Christian Christian

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Christ +‎ -en

    From Wiktionary

Christen Sentence Examples

  • Women's Editor Christen Pears reports Are we being poisoned by pesticides?

  • An improved edition of this tractate was published in 1816, under the title Gedanken fiber Bibel and Bibellehre, and in the same year appeared Was war die Bibel den ersten Christen?

  • I was surprised to see how thirsty the bricks were which drank up all the moisture in my plaster before I had smoothed it, and how many pailfuls of water it takes to christen a new hearth.

  • His Parable of the Wicked Mammon (1528), Obedience of a Christen Man (1528), in which the two great principles of the English Reformation are set out, viz.

  • Majestie to stablysh Christen quietness " (1536), together with the " Injunctions " of 1536 and 1538, are chiefly noteworthy for their affirmation of almost all the current doctrines of the Catholic Church, except those relating to the papal supremacy, purgatory, images, relics and pilgrimages, and the old rooted distrust of the Bible in the vernacular.

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Words Starting With

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