Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Immersion

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Immersion


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(1):

(n.) Submersion in water for the purpose of Christian baptism, as, practiced by the Baptists.

(2):

(n.) The state of being overhelmed or deeply absorbed; deep engagedness.

(3):

(n.) The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping; as, the immersion of Achilles in the Styx.

(4):

(n.) The dissapearance of a celestail body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite; -- opposed to emersion.