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Definition of Immersions
1. immersion [n] - See also: immersion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Immersions
Literary usage of Immersions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Baptism: With Reference to Its Import and Modes by Edward Beecher (1849)
"Hence it is perfectly plain that no reference can be had here to the immersions
of inanimate things, but only to the purifications of persons. ..."
2. Baptism in Its Mode and Subjects by Alexander Carson (1860)
"I am well aware that the three immersions may be called also one baptism.
My philosophy can account for this. When they are said to be three baptisms, ..."
3. A Hand-book on Christian Baptism by Richard Ingham (1865)
"were really immersions, and, therefore, that the use of the word, in these
instances, instead of weakening, must confirm the belief that it always means ..."
4. Origines Ecclesiasticæ: The Antiquities of the Christian Church. With Two by Joseph Bingham (1856)
"For while some priests baptized with three immersions, and the others but with
one, a schism was raised," endangering the unity of the faith. ..."
5. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"Cassia tora seeds are used as a yellow dye. They are said also to form an ingredient
in dyeing blue with indigo. About seven immersions are required to fix ..."
6. A High-school Astronomy: In which the Descriptive, Physical, and Practical by Hiram Mattison (1857)
"The immersions and ... It may also be regarded as a great natural clock, keeping
absolute time tor the whole world ; as the immersions and ..."
7. Rustless Coatings: Corrosion and Electrolysis of Iron and Steel by Matthew Patterson Wood (1904)
"... wire of high breaking strain has its TABLE GIVING THICKNESS OF ZINC REQUIRED
TO WITHSTAND VARYING NUMBER OF immersions IN A SOLUTION OF COPPER SULPHATE. ..."
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