Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the Gr. Ch.: A baptismal bowl or font.
- noun A baptistery. Also written
columbethra .
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Examples
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A brook runs babbling outside, but the holy well or colymbethra is now dry, though it might easily be filled again.
Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911
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