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chrisom child

chrisom child noun: a child that died within a month after its baptism.

Noun

chrisom child (plural chrisom children)

  1. A child that died within a month after its baptism.
    • It is on a small stone in the chancel, underneath a brass figure of a chrisom child, and runs thus "Of Rog' Lee, gentilma' here, lyeth the son Bendict Lee Crysom, who soule ih'u p'dō."1892, Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer, Church-lore Gleanings, page 148
    • There are numerous entries in the burial register of CHRISOM CHILDREN.” The earliest one is “a chrisom childe of Francis and Elizabeth Dobson, ” who was buried on January 6th, 1622.1897, John Charles Cox, R. M. Serjeantson, A History of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Northampton, page 191

Examples of chrisom child in a sentence

  • Peter's contain frequent references to the burial of chrisom children.1904, R. M. Serjeantson, A History of the Church of St. Peter, Northampton, Together with the Chapels of Kingsthorpe and Upton, page 118:
  • Since children with crosses may be older than a month and those without younger, there is simply no means of telling whether they were chrisom children in either of the two possible senses.2000, Bruce Gordon, Peter Marshall, The Place of the Dead, page 281:

Forms of chrisom child

pluralchrisom children

Origin of chrisom child

So called from the chrisom cloth used as a shroud for such children.

Questions about chrisom child

What does chrisom child mean?
Chrisom child means a child that died within a month after its baptism.
How do you use chrisom child in a sentence?
Peter's contain frequent references to the burial of chrisom children.
What part of speech is chrisom child?
Chrisom child is a noun.
What is the plural of chrisom child?
The plural of chrisom child is chrisom children.

Words near chrisom child in the dictionary

  1. chrismons
  2. chrisms
  3. Chrismukka
  4. Chrismukkah
  5. chrisom
  6. chrisom child
  7. chrisom children
  8. Chrisomalis
  9. chrisome
  10. chrisomes
  11. chrisoms

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