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n. - A consecrated ointment consisting of a mixture of oil and balsam.

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Usage examples (14)
  • The place dripped radiance; was filling like a chrisom with radiance.
  • Not knowing my true chrisom name, the stranger takes up my words an 'fits 'em to me.
  • 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...
  • 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...
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