Definition of Trine immersion

1. Noun. Baptism by immersion three times (in the names in turn of the Trinity).

Generic synonyms: Immersion

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trine Immersion

trimyarian
trimyristin
trin
trinal
trinaries
trinary
trinary star
trinary star system
trinary star systems
trinary stars
trindle
trindled
trindles
trindling
trine immersion (current term)
trined
trinervate
trinerved
trines
tringa
tringle
tringles
tringoid
trinidad and tobago
trinification
trining
trinitarianism
trinities
trinitite

Literary usage of Trine immersion

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A General History of the Baptist Denomination in America, and Other Parts of by David Benedict (1813)
"Speaking of baptism by trine immersion, which was the Ambrosian method, he says : " Observe the Ambrosian manner of baptizing. Now-a-days, the priests ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1845)
"407. tents: baptism with trine immersion, chrism, exorcism, white robes, consecrated milk and honey; deaconesses officiating at the immersion of adult women ..."

3. The History of Baptism by Robert Robinson (1817)
"... resembled that at St. Sophia, and their baptism was that of believers by trine immersion. So far were the Greeks and other Easterns from imagining that ..."

4. The History of Baptism by Robert Robinson, David Benedict (1817)
"... and on many more, for all their baptisteries resembled that at St. Sophia, and their baptism was that of believers by trine immersion. ..."

5. The History of Infant Baptism: Together with Mr. Gale's Reflections, and Dr by William Wall, John Gale (1844)
"... apostles—of the succeeding church for many centuries, which urged a trine immersion—Learned men in general allow this mode of baptism—Mr. Wall pretends, ..."

6. Baptism: With Reference to Its Import and Modes by Edward Beecher (1849)
"It may be well here to notice the sophistical reasoning by which the author of this canon endeavored to make out the doctrine of trine immersion. ..."

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