How To Use Chrisom In A Sentence
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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.
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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"
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Though not required by the Protestant prayer book, chrisom cloths were still standard equipment, at least in the Elizabethan period.
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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
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If the child died within a month of baptism, the chrisom-cloth was used as a burial shroud.
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A linen cloth anointed with this oil, called a chrisom cloth, is laid upon the baby's face.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
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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
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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
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If it dies within a month after these ceremonies, it was called a chrisom child.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
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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.
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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.
This Scepter'd Isle
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The place dripped radiance; was filling like a chrisom with radiance.
The Metal Monster
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What though its brow the chrisom lacked, I'd lift the golden pin,
Spun-Yarn and Spindrift
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Chrisomer literally means an infant buried in its baptism robe (chrisom).
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Martin Luther, that false loon, Black Bullinger and Melanchthon" had been smothered in their chrisom-cloths and that St. Paul had never been born.
The Age of the Reformation
