We have no meanings for "christen the child" in our records yet.
1 The same punishment was denounced against the persons who should christen the child or act as its sponsors.
2 After sitting long, till the church was done, the Parson comes, and then we to christen the child .
3 Nevertheless, the Duke had other views: there were prophecies... At any rate, he would christen the child Elizabeth, a name of happy augury.
4 A good Moravian Brother had come along during the winter and christened the child by the name of the angel of comfort.
5 They christened the child , whereat he wept and made a grimace, as though he foresaw that he was to be a titular councillor.
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