The act of baptizing someone by pouring water on their head.

Roget 73: dispersion; disjunction etc. 44; divergence etc. 291; aspersion; scattering etc. v.; dissemination, diffusion, dissipation, distribution; apportionment etc. 786; spread, respersion^†, circumfusion^†, interspersion, spargefaction^†; affusion^†.    waifs and estrays^†, flotsam and jetsam, disjecta membra [Lat.], [Horace]; waveson^†.    ... show more

Roget 337: water; serum, serosity^†; lymph; rheum; diluent; agua [Sp.], aqua, pani^†.    dilution, maceration, lotion; washing etc. v.; immersion^†, humectation^†, infiltration, spargefaction^†, affusion^†, irrigation, douche, balneation^†, bath.    deluge etc. (water in motion) 348; high water, flood tide.    ... show more