Definition of Chrisma

1. chrismon [n] - See also: chrismon

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chrisma

chowtime
chowtimes
choy sum
chrch
chrematistic
chrematistics
chreotechnics
chresard
chresards
chresmologue
chresmologues
chrestomathic
chrestomathies
chrestomathy
chrism
chrisma (current term)
chrismal
chrismation
chrismations
chrismatories
chrismatory
chrismon
chrismons
chrisms
chrisom
chrisoms
chrisstanleyite
christelite
christella
christen

Literary usage of Chrisma

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1893)
"142) mentions a ring cut out of crystal, bearing the chrisma alone, on the face of an oblong ... figures a gem on which the chrisma is surmounted by a star, ..."

2. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Being a Continuation of the by Sir William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1875)
"U2) mentions a ring cut out of crystal, bearing the chrisma alone, on the face of an oblong ... figures a gem on which the chrisma is surmounted by a star, ..."

3. Origines Ecclesiasticæ: Or, The Antiquities of the Christian Church, and by Joseph Bingham (1834)
"... solenni- tatem chrisma petant. * Con. Tolet. i. can. 20. ... qui confectum chrisma ab episcopo destini- tum ad diem Paschae possint ad tempus deferre. ..."

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