The White Star Line did not believe in the practice and none of its vessels were christened.
The particular specimen is so odd-looking that scuba divers who videoed him instantly christened him after the famous animated ogre from the hit films.
On coming back a few days afterwards (for I did not consider my banishment perpetual) I found they had christened him `Heathcliff': it was the name of a son who died in childhood, and it has served him ever since, both for Christian and surname.
The baby was christened in St. Paul's Cathedral.
The fortified hilltops, christened by the French with girls' names such as Anne-Marie, Claudine and Eliane, were reduced one by one.
He christened this attitude 'amor fati'. (Ironically, it was Nietzsche who led an ascetic life while neither Schopenhauer nor Wagner seemed to have practiced the 'renunciation of the Will'!)
Dart christened the fossil Australopithecus Africanus, meaning the "Southern African ape".
One critic has christened the two types of authors "palefaces" and "redskins," taking Henry James and walt Whitman as representative figures.
The new ship was christened before it was launched.
Clan Foundry used this experience to concieve the A29, which they had christened as 'Clan' after the foundry, where it was made.
As a girl, she would go to church by herself. She still attends regularly, and her children were all christened.
This Tennessee cavern, christened Indianapolis by its premiere explorer, was only discovered last year.
In LATE January Silversea Cruises christened its newest ship, the Silver Spirit, with champagne and sent it on a 91-day voyage around Latin America.
Wham -o's new toy was christened the hula hoop.
The child was christened Mary.
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