Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

chrisom child

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: chri-som child
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A child that died within a month after its baptism.

Example Sentences

"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.""
"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."
"As is the case in most early registers, the records of St. Peter's contain frequent references to the burial of chrisom children."
"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."

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

chrisom children (plural)

Questions

What does chrisom child mean?: A child that died within a month after its baptism.
Where does chrisom child come from?: So called from the chrisom cloth used as a shroud for such children.

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