Crossword-Solution: CHRISM
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Chrism | n. | Olive oil mixed with balm and spices, consecrated by the bishop on Maundy Thursday, and used in the administration of baptism, confirmation, ordination, etc. |
| Chrism | n. | The same as Chrisom. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CHRISM | anagram | SMIRCH |
We have 19 clues for the answer “CHRISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| The oil of anointment. | 1 answer |
| Sacramental oil | 1 answer |
| SACRAMENTAL anointing, substance used for | 1 answer |
| Oil used in church rites | 1 answer |
| Consecrated oil | 1 answer |
| HOLY oil | 1 answer |
| OLIVE oil and balsam mixture | 1 answer |
| HOLY orders | 2 answers |
| A CONSECRATED OINTMENT CONSISTING OF A MIXTURE OF OIL AND BALSAM | 11 answers |
| cerate | 25 answers |
| ANOINTING | 26 answers |
| Unguent | 28 answers |
| Unction | 29 answers |
| Salve | 33 answers |
| lubricant | 42 answers |
| ___ cream | 52 answers |
| Balm | 66 answers |
| Oil | 67 answers |
| APPLICATION ___ | 68 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CHRISM (5)
Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul? When the son went out to look for his father's asses, he did not know that a man of God was waiting for him with the very chrism of coronation, and that his own soul was already the soul of a king.
That chrism he laid upon his eyes, And lips, and heart, for euphrasies, That he might see, feel, sing, perdie, The simple things that are the wise.
Cruelly tried by revolutionary horrors, the Duchesse de Verneuil acquired in the last years of her life a halo of passionate piety, which, to use the phraseology of Saint-Martin, shed the light of celestial love and the chrism of inward joy upon the soul of her cherished niece.
What hast thou to do With looking from the lattice-lights at me, A poor, tired, wandering singer, singing through The dark, and leaning up a cypress tree? The chrism is on thine head,—on mine, the dew,— And Death must dig the level where these agree.
But the sanguinary chrism, to the alarm of the spectators, effected an instantaneous and unhallowed change in the boy.
Quotes with CHRISM (2)
The husband is the head of the wife just in so far as he is to her what Christ is to the Church - read on - and give his life for her (Eph. V, 25). This headship, then, is most fully embodied not in the husband we should all wish to be but in him whose marriage is most like a crucifixion; whose wife receives most and gives least, is most unworthy of him, is - in her own mere nature - least lovable. For the Church has not beauty but what the Bride-groom gives her; he does not …
Master Palaemon's hand, dry and wrinkled as a mummy's, groped until it found mine. "Among the initiates of religion it is said, 'You are an epopt always.' The reference is not only to knowledge but to their chrism, whose mark, being invisible, is ineradicable. You know our chrism." I nodded again." Less even than theirs can it be washed away. Should you leave now, men will only say, 'He was nurtured by the torturers.' But when you have been anointed they will say, 'He is a to…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, Newsday, NYT.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1962–2022).