Definitions for chrisms

chrisms chrism

Spelling: [kriz-uh m]
IPA: /ˈkrɪz əm/

Chrisms is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 120 anagrams from letters in chrisms (chimrss).

Definitions for chrisms

noun

  1. a consecrated oil, usually mixed with balsam or balsam and spices, used by certainchurches in various rites, as in baptism, confirmation, and the like.

Origin of chrisms

before 900; learned respelling of Middle English crisme, Old English crisma Latin chrīsma Greek chrîsma unguent, unction

Examples for chrisms

The chrism of motherhood consecrates a woman as a priestess.

And while the chrism is used they chant, 'See the smell of my son is as the smell of a field.'

Jerry lived under the daily chrism of that soft well-wishing.

Anoint me with the chrism of spontaneity that I may be ever worthy of thee.

The chrism of Thackeray's inaugural ode will not have been dishonored.

The chrism's glow on his forehead shone, The great St. George of duty high!

For Philip, when he baptised the eunuch, had neither oil nor chrism.

I had no right, as I told her, to suffer the innocence of her chrism to be soiled with the evil passions which were sin in me.

Lastly, he anointeth with chrism the twelve crosses depicted on the wall.

The chrism is on thine head,—on mine, the dew,— And Death must dig the level where these agree.

Word Value for chrisms
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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