Christening [verb]

The first incident in the babyhood of the Princess Alice which attracts attention is the record of her christening.

Lady Hartledon was not to be thwarted on all points, and she insisted on a ceremonious christening.

She was still absorbed with the twins, who, Mandy Ann told her, had worn her white frock at their christening.

Pall, who went this day to a child's christening of Kate Joyce's, staid out all night at my father's, she not being well.

So they had as grand a christening as people in their circumstances could afford.

We are told that there were great festivities at Peter's christening.

This was the church of the christening of Franois-Marie Arouet, a few years later.

Mr. Rees' version relates that once the husband and wife were invited to a christening in the neighbourhood.

Not always preaching and praying; or marrying, christening, and burying people.

The entertainment now given was in honour of a christening; the lady who gave it, a relation of the new-born.