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† ˈfont-stone Obs.
[f. font n.1 + stone.]
The stone font used in baptism.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 149 Þet ȝe habbeð et þe fonstan under⁓fonge. 1297R. Glouc. (1724) 247 Of holy vantston. c1380Sir Ferumb. 548 Had he beo in crist be-leued, & fulled in holi fanston. 1426Audelay Poems 11 This foreward furst we mad at the fonsston. 1594? Greene Selimus Wks. 1881–3 XIV. 267 They shal swear it vpon the font-stone. 1682R. Burton Admirable Curiosities (1684) 121 As clean from my Sins as I was at the Font-stone. 1830Scott Demonol. v. 147 If she would but deny..the faith she took at the font-stone. |