What do you mean by christen ?

Yes. Will you christen the place with me?

And geologists have actually christened well, they're debating whether to christen the age that we're living in they're debating whether to make it a new geological epoch called the Anthropocene, the age of Man.

I was surprised to see how thirsty the bricks were which drank up all the moisture in my plaster before I had smoothed it, and how many pailfuls of water it takes to christen a new hearth.