儀式與命名
這一家就是核心畫面本身，以及把它直接借給非宗教場合的用法。共同點是：有人當眾說出名字，從此就這樣叫。
verb · B2
To give a baby its official name at a Christian church ceremony, in which water is put on the child's head and the child is welcomed into the church.
受洗命名
核心畫面
Picture the moment water touches a baby's head and someone says the name out loud. From that moment the name is hers. Every other use of christen can be seen as that moment lent out: to a new ferry, to a nickname the fans start shouting, to an oven used for the first time, even to the first spill on a new shirt. What they share is a beginning that somebody marks — the point at which a thing is officially called something, or officially in use.
christen 可以想成一個「用水正式開始」的時刻：水點在嬰兒頭上，有人大聲說出名字，從那一刻起，這個名字就是他的…更多收起
christen 可以想成一個「用水正式開始」的時刻：水點在嬰兒頭上，有人大聲說出名字，從那一刻起，這個名字就是他的。這個字其他的用法，都像是把這個時刻借了出去——借給新下水的渡輪、借給粉絲叫開的綽號、借給第一次開火的烤箱，甚至借給新襯衫上第一個果汁印子。共通的地方是：有一個開始被人標記了下來，某樣東西從此正式被這樣叫，或正式開始被用。From the word’s history
The packet traces christen to Old English cristnian 'to christen, baptise', from cristen (Christian), and notes that by surface analysis it is Christ + -en. So the church ceremony is where the word starts, and the naming, the first use and the joking first spill all sit downstream of it.
證據裡的字源是古英語 cristnian「施洗」，來自 cristen（基督徒）；從構詞上看就是 Christ 加動詞字尾 -en。所以教會裡的那場儀式是這個字的起點，後面的「命名」「第一次使用」「第一次被弄髒」都可以看成從那裡借出去的畫面。
Wiktionary entry 'christen' (verb), source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1086211617:20803, supplied in the evidence packet
Two branches
第一次啟用、第一次留下印子
這一家借走的是「開始」那半，不是名字那半。東西從沒被用過，到第一次被用，中間那個點被拿來開玩笑地當成儀式。
verb · C1
To use something new for the very first time, often making a small joke of it as if the thing were having its own little ceremony.
開張使用、初次啟用
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
christenverb/ˈkɹɪsən/
- 1
To perform the religious rite of baptism upon; to baptize.
- The new baby was christened at the village church.
- Lewis the 9th of France, being asked by vvhat ſtile he vvould be called, ſaid, Levvis of Poyſſy. […] [S]aid he, I deſire to be called Levvis of Poyſſy, becauſe there I got the moſt glorious victory that ever I had; For there I overcame the Divell: meaning that he vvas chriſtned there.
- 2
To name.
- I christen this ship the Bonny Barnacle.
- 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth Christen the thing what you will.
- 3
obsoleteTo Christianize.
- I must tell you that christianity hath new christened it
- 4
To use for the first time.
- I christened my new boots today with a walk in the snow.
- Foo Fighters, the Pretenders, and Alex G christened Portland’s newest music venue Friday night, and it was a show for the ages.
- 5
informalTo douse or wet with blood, urine, tears, or other liquid.
- Thus was De Witt's colony, like Austin's, at the mouth of the Colorado, christened in blood, and thus for the moment ended the first effort to found a settlement within its limits.
- I christened the facilities, shrugged into my windbreaker, and met Dolan at his door.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。