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Definition of Chrisms
1. chrism [n] - See also: chrism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chrisms
Literary usage of Chrisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1902)
"... and auxiliaries of his brother, embraced this ir occasion of rifling and
profaning the holy city of the chrisms : many thousands of the citizens, ..."
2. Publications (1854)
"... and breathing on the face of the party baptized, together with their chrisms
and hallowed lights.4 Neither do we believe, that infants dying in infancy, ..."
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