Word.ws English Dictionary

chrismations

chrismations is the plural of chrismation.

Meaning of chrismation

Noun

chrismation (countable and uncountable, plural chrismations)

  1. The sacrament of applying chrism to complete baptism in the Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches.
    • The Church opposed burning people who had received the myron of chrismation in the baptism ritual.
  2. In general, the act of applying chrism, or consecrated oil.

Questions about chrismations

What is chrismations the plural of?
Chrismations is the plural of chrismation.

Words near chrismations in the dictionary

  1. chrismate
  2. chrismated
  3. chrismates
  4. chrismating
  5. chrismation
  6. chrismations
  7. chrismatories
  8. chrismatory
  9. chrismon
  10. chrismons
  11. chrisms

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: chrismations (page history and authors); chrismation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “chrismations.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/chrismations. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.