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Chrisom vs Chrism - What's the difference?

chrisom | chrism |

As nouns the difference between chrisom and chrism

is that chrisom is a white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened while chrism is a mixture of oil and balm, consecrated for use as an anointing fluid in certain Christian ceremonies, especially confirmation.

chrisom

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened.
  • (obsolete) A child that died within a month after its baptism; so called from the chrisom cloth used as a shroud for it.
    • (Blount)
    (Webster 1913)

    chrism

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mixture of oil and balm, consecrated for use as an anointing fluid in certain Christian ceremonies, especially confirmation.
  • * 1982 , A. G. Dickens, Reformation Studies , page 305, footnote,
    • I observe no confirmation of this reversal and Pole specifically restored chrisms in 1555 (Cardwell, op. cit. i. 147).
  • * 1984 , (Anthony Burgess), Enderby's Dark Lady :
    • ‘The King,’ Will cried, ‘is my master and bathed in the chrism of the Lord God.’
  • * 1986 , Thomas G. Pavel, Fictional Worlds , page 111,
    • For Christian examples of condensed symbols, consider the sacraments, particularly the Eucharist and the Chrisms .
  • * 2000 , Joseph O'Neill, The Black Shore , page 62,
    • He was more dangerous than the plump satisfied ones, he was so sure of the value of his witchcraft, the holy oils and chrisms and unctions.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 8:
    • Miraculously moist, the chrism was kept in an ampulla in Reims cathedral where the coronations of the kings of France were held.

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