Blood baptism

Related to Blood baptism: Baptism by fire

(Eccl. Hist.)

the martyrdom of those who had not been baptized. They were considered as baptized in blood, and this was regarded as a full substitute for literal baptism.

See also: Blood

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

References in periodicals archive ?

To put it plainly, descriptions such as "child baptism", "infant baptism", "believers' baptism", "adult baptism" -- but also "water baptism", "Spirit baptism", the "baptism of illumination", "blood baptism" -- always relate to analytically demonstrable (and therefore visible) circumstances, and this is where clashes arise.

We Confess One Baptism for the Forgiveness of Sins

Ruthlessly putting down the second Chechen uprising (1999-2000) was the blood baptism of the new leader rising from the intelligence community's dungeons.

A new term for a new tsar

While both of the play's shamans experience a blood baptism as an introduction to their vocation, Bynum's clearly alludes to Christ's blood.