a. [ad. med.L. baptismāl-is: see BAPTISM and -AL 1.] Of, pertaining to, or connected with baptism. Also ellipt. = Baptismal name, the personal or ‘Christian’ name given at baptism.
1641. J. Jackson, True Evang. T., iii. 175. His Baptismall Laver [was] awaited by a Dove.
1651. Baxter, Inf. Bapt., 293. This Doctrine of Baptismal Regeneration.
a. 1711. Ken, Hymnotheo, Wks. 1721, III. 106. Thy Mercy I invoke, For my Baptismal Vow so often broke.
1869. Freeman, Norm. Conq. (1876), III. xii. 138. Geoffrey also changed his baptismal name.
1872. De Morgan, Budget of Paradoxes, 120. ‘The donor … is Mr. Andrew Theophilus Smith,’ or some such unlikely pair of baptismals.
