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Definition of Chrisoms
1. chrisom [n] - See also: chrisom
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chrisoms
Literary usage of Chrisoms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Parish Registers in England: Their History and Contents, with Suggestions by Robert Edmond Chester Waters (1883)
"... within the month after their birth were formerly shrouded in the white
cloth (chrisom) put on the head at baptism, and were therefore called chrisoms. ..."
2. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University (1908)
"chrisoms. ie, white robes put on children when baptized, and given as an offering
at churching ... Acc'ts, 282 (chrisoms farmed out by the parish in 1562-3. ..."
3. Shakespeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet; Criticism on by Nathan Drake (1817)
"... and children thus situated were called in the bills of mortality chrisoms.
... 1678, explains the word chrisoms as meaning such children as die within ..."
4. The Elizabethan Parish in Its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects by Sedley Lynch Ware (1908)
"1582). Usually marriage and churching dues went to minister and clerk (see tariffs,
p. 221 supra). chrisoms, ie, white robes put on children when baptized, ..."
5. A Rational Illustration of the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of by Charles Wheatly (1819)
"And from this practice I The word suppose the name of chrisoms had its rise in
the Weekly chrisoms ..."
6. Shakspeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet, Criticisms on by Nathan Drake (1838)
"... and children thus situated were called in the bills of mortality chrisoms.
This practice, which was common in the days of Shakspeare, continued in use ..."
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