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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun chrisom has 1 sense
- chrisom(n = noun.artifact) chrism, holy oil, sacramental oil - a consecrated ointment consisting of a mixture of oil and balsam; Array is a kind of balm, ointment, salve, unction, unguent
CIDE DICTIONARY
chrisom, n. [See Chrism.].
- A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened. [1913 Webster]
- A child which died within a month after its baptism; -- so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it. Blount. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
chrisom, n.
1 = CHRISM.
2 (in full chrisom-cloth) hist. a white robe put on a child at baptism, and used as its shroud if it died within the month.
1 = CHRISM.
2 (in full chrisom-cloth) hist. a white robe put on a child at baptism, and used as its shroud if it died within the month.
Etymology
ME, as pop. pronunc. of CHRISM
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