| Chrisom 1. (n.) A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened. 2. (n.) A child which died within a month after its baptism; -- so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it. Thesaurus Entries affusion, altar cloth, aspergation, aspersion, baldacchino, baldachin, baptism, baptismal font, baptismal gown, baptismal regeneration, baptistery, baptizement, cerecloth, chalice, chancel screen, chrism, chrismation, chrismatory, chrisom, christening, ciborium, corporal, cruet, extreme unction, fanon, font, holy-water font, immersion, infusion, jube, kneeling stool, last rites, monstrance, oblation cloth, ointment, ostensorium, paten, piscina, prayer rug, prie-dieu, pyx, reliquary, reredos, rood cloth, rood screen, sacrament cloth, sacramental anointment, sacred unction, sprinkling, stoup, total immersion, unction, viaticum |