The chrisom was a white baptismal robe with which, in mediaeval times, a child, when christened, was enveloped.
There was an order in the Church of England up to the year 1552, that if a child died within a month of baptism he should be buried in his chrisom in lieu of a shroud.
A sixteenth century brass in Chesham Bois Church, in Buckinghamshire, represents Benedict Lee, chrisom child, in his chrisom cloth.
If the child died before the churching, it was buried in the chrisom, and hence it may be that the child itself was called a chrisom or chrisomer.
Every morning creeps out of a dark cloud, leaving behind it an ignorance and silence deep as midnight, and undiscerned as are the phantoms that made a chrisom child to smile.
Falstaff: "A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any Chrisom Child.
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.
For by the manner of their death, they dying so quietly, so like unto chrisom children, as they call it, they are hardened, and take courage to go on in their course.
Elizabeth, we may be sure, was arrayed in something very fine, as she proudly carried the chrisom containing the holy oil, with which the baby was to be anointed.
A linen cloth anointed with this oil, called a chrisom cloth, is laid upon the baby's face.
Bishop Jeremy Taylor mentions the phantasms that make a chrisomchild to smile at death.
If it dies within a month after these ceremonies, it was called a chrisom child.
Chrisom is a consecrated unguent, or oil, used in the baptism of infants in the Romish Church.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chrisom" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
