chrisom

A linen cloth anointed with this oil, called a chrisom cloth, is laid upon the baby's face.

Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658

If it dies within a month after these ceremonies, it was called a chrisom child.

Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658

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" 2008

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.

Secret feelings - book from Nina Mindova 2008

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 2005

The place dripped radiance; was filling like a chrisom with radiance.

The Metal Monster 2004

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 Lackey, Mercedes 2004

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 Herbert Strang

What though its brow the chrisom lacked, I'd lift the golden pin,

Spun-Yarn and Spindrift Norah Mary 1918

"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 Preserved Smith 1910