Usually means: Initiation ritual using water, symbolically.
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  5. baptise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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verb:  Non-Oxford British English standard form of baptize. [(Christianity) To perform the sacrament of baptism by sprinkling or pouring water over someone or immersing them in water.]

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