| 释义 |
† ˈchrisomer Obs.
[f. chrisom + -er.]
1. A newly-baptized child, still wearing the chrisom or christening robe; an innocent babe; an infant that died within a month of baptism.
1574–5Reg. Holy Cross, Canterb. 9 Jan., A chrisomer, ye chelde of Henry Jenkynson, bu[ried]. 1605Camden Rem. (1629) 241 She had brought forth two monsters Lambert and Peter..neither were they Chrysomers, but such child-choppers, that as soone as euer they were borne, they were able to wage warre with a mighty King. 1692Par. Reg. St. Mich. Bristol, John Hall, chrisomer, bur. 4 June.
b. ? An ‘innocent’, an idiot.
1567Par. Reg. Herne, Kent in Biblioth. Topogr. I. 99 Ould Arnold, a crysomer, buried February 8.
2. ? An unbaptized child.
1886N. & Q. 7th S. II. 96 A portion of the Churchyard..which he designated Chrisomers' Hill, where, said he [sexton, c 1840] ‘the unbaptized children be always buried’. |