paedobaptism

plural paedobaptisms · alternative pædobaptism · alternative pædo-baptism · alternative paedo-baptism · alternative pedobaptism · alternative pedo-baptism

1. uncountableusuallyThe baptism of infants or young children.

   It is not, however, to the predecessors of this African, whoever they were that authorized Pædo-baptism, and at whatever period it first became general—it is not to the Church at the time being, that these consequences are justly imputable.

   1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Aphorisms on that which is indeed Spiritual Religion”, in Aids to Reflection

   Synonyms: christening, infant baptism, infantile baptism