Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
chrism .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete See
chrisom .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
chrisom .
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Examples
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A made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child; a parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his fingers ends, I knew there was but one way; for his nose was as sharp as a pen, and a babbled of green fields.
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'A made a finer end, and went away, an it had been any christom
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child; a 'parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after
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’A made a finer end, [19] and went away, an it had been any christom child; [20] ’a parted even just between twelve and one, e’en at turning o’ the tide: [21] for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, [22] and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers’ ends,
King Henry the Fifth Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre William Shakespeare 1590
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