How To Use chrisom In A Sentence
- It is said to depict a chrisom child, i.e., a chrisom is a child's white robe worn at baptism, used as a shroud if the infant dies within a month.
- Incredible at a style, more explicit instrumentalities and intellectual charge, as an odoriferous chrisom, she anoints by the singular attars to the wisdom and the creative beauty. Nina Mindova author of poetry book"Secret feelings"
- Though not required by the Protestant prayer book, chrisom cloths were still standard equipment, at least in the Elizabethan period.
- After the baptism a piece of white linen cloth was placed on the head of the child, and remained there until the mother had been "churched" or purified; it was called the "chrisom cloth" and, if the infant died within a month, was used as a shroud. Excerpt: Shakespeare by Peter Ackroyd
- If the child died within a month of baptism, the chrisom-cloth was used as a burial shroud.
- A linen cloth anointed with this oil, called a chrisom cloth, is laid upon the baby's face. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
- Not knowing my true chrisom name, the stranger takes up my words an 'fits 'em to me. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India
- After the baptism a piece of white linen cloth was placed on the head of the child, and remained there until the mother had been "churched" or purified; it was called the "chrisom cloth" and, if the infant died within a month, was used as a shroud. Excerpt: Shakespeare by Peter Ackroyd
- If it dies within a month after these ceremonies, it was called a chrisom child. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
- This white vesture was worn for a month after the child's birth, and if it died before the expiration of that time, it had the chrisom for its shroud.