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chrisom
[ kriz-uhm ]
chrisom
/ ˈkrɪzəm /
noun
- Christianity a white robe put on an infant at baptism and formerly used as a burial shroud if the infant died soon afterwards
- archaic.an infant wearing such a robe
- a variant spelling of chrism
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The chrisom was a white baptismal robe with which, in mediæval times, a child, when christened, was enveloped.
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In Graunt’s “Bills of Mortality,” cited in Johnson’s Dictionary, we read: “When the convulsions were but were but few, the number of chrisoms and infants was greater.”
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When children died within the month they were called chrisoms.
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At her churching a woman was expected to make some offering to the church, such as the chrisom or alb thrown over the child at christening.
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He died like a lamb, or, as men call it, like a chrisom child, quietly and without fear.'
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