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A consecrated ointment consisting of a mixture of oil and balsam
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chrisom
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a consecrated ointment consisting of a mixture of oil and balsam [syn: chrism , sacramental oil , holy oil ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chrisom \Chris"om\, n. [See Chrism .] A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened. [Obs.] A child which died within a month after its baptism; -- so called from the chrisom cloth which was used ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened. 2 (context obsolete English) A child that died within a month after its baptism; so called from the chrisom cloth used ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Anciently, a chrisom , or "chrisom-cloth," was the face-cloth, or piece of linen laid over a child's head when he or she was baptised or christened. Originally, the purpose of the chrisom-cloth was to keep the chrism , a consecrated oil, from accidentally ...
Usage examples of chrisom.
She said no word thereon: as for her shrift, No Chrisom child could show a chart of thoughts More spotless than were hers.
Only three days later, when he took part in the magnificent christening ceremony that named the child Elizabeth, he saw that the iron cross was pinned to the inside of the chrisom, the robe in which the child would be wrapped when she was taken from the baptismal font.
And raising the corpse of the monkey in his jewelled hands, he laid it in her arms like a chrisom child, and bending the golden head, bowed.