paedobaptism

• pædobaptism, pædo-baptism, paedo-baptism, pedobaptism, pedo-baptism

paedo- +‎ baptism

• (UK) IPA^(key): /piːdəʊˈbaptɪz(ə)m/

paedobaptism (usually uncountable, plural paedobaptisms)

1. The baptism of infants or young children.
   • 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Aphorisms on that which is indeed Spiritual Religion”, in Aids to Reflection‎:

     It is not, however, to the predecessors of this African, whoever they were that authorized Pædo-baptism, and at whatever period it first became general—it is not to the Church at the time being, that these consequences are justly imputable.

• christening (in some faith traditions)