"chrisom child" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: chrisom children [plural]
Etymology: So called from the chrisom cloth used as a shroud for such children. Head templates: {{en-noun|chrisom children}} chrisom child (plural chrisom children)
  1. (Christianity) A child that died within a month after its baptism. Categories (topical): Christianity
    Sense id: en-chrisom_child-en-noun-nkvJT-XO Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: Christianity

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  "etymology_text": "So called from the chrisom cloth used as a shroud for such children.",
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          "ref": "1892, Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer, Church-lore Gleanings, page 148",
          "text": "It is on a small stone in the chancel, underneath a brass figure of a chrisom child, and runs thus \"Of Rog' Lee, gentilma' here, lyeth the son Bendict Lee Crysom, who soule ih'u p'dō.\"",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1897, John Charles Cox, R. M. Serjeantson, A History of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Northampton, page 191",
          "text": "There are numerous entries in the burial register of CHRISOM CHILDREN.” The earliest one is “a chrisom childe of Francis and Elizabeth Dobson, ” who was buried on January 6th, 1622.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1904, R. M. Serjeantson, A History of the Church of St. Peter, Northampton, Together with the Chapels of Kingsthorpe and Upton, page 118",
          "text": "As is the case in most early registers, the records of St. Peter's contain frequent references to the burial of chrisom children.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Bruce Gordon, Peter Marshall, The Place of the Dead, page 281",
          "text": "Since children with crosses may be older than a month and those without younger, there is simply no means of telling whether they were chrisom children in either of the two possible senses.",
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        }
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        "A child that died within a month after its baptism."
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        "(Christianity) A child that died within a month after its baptism."
      ],
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        "Christianity"
      ]
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  "forms": [
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    }
  ],
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        {
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          "text": "There are numerous entries in the burial register of CHRISOM CHILDREN.” The earliest one is “a chrisom childe of Francis and Elizabeth Dobson, ” who was buried on January 6th, 1622.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1904, R. M. Serjeantson, A History of the Church of St. Peter, Northampton, Together with the Chapels of Kingsthorpe and Upton, page 118",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Bruce Gordon, Peter Marshall, The Place of the Dead, page 281",
          "text": "Since children with crosses may be older than a month and those without younger, there is simply no means of telling whether they were chrisom children in either of the two possible senses.",
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        "(Christianity) A child that died within a month after its baptism."
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