A reinforcement of fresh troops staggered in, one man soaked and dripping, his hair sticky with the chrism of poured beer, another with his pockets crammed with sauce-bottles.
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Chrism
//ˈkɹɪz(ə)m//
Synonyms for "chrism" (29 found)
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Related words (14)
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32 translations across 26 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- մյուռոն noun (mixture of oil and balm)
Bulgarian
2 entries- еле́й noun (mixture of oil and balm)
- ми́ро noun (mixture of oil and balm)
Catalan
1 entries- crisma noun (mixture of oil and balm)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 聖油 /圣油 noun (mixture of oil and balm)
Czech
1 entries- křižmo noun (mixture of oil and balm)
Finnish
2 entries- mirha noun (mixture of oil and balm)
- mirhami noun (mixture of oil and balm)
French
1 entries- chrême noun (mixture of oil and balm)
Galician
1 entries- crisma noun (mixture of oil and balm)
Georgian
1 entries- მირონი noun (mixture of oil and balm)
German
3 entries- Chrisam noun (mixture of oil and balm)
- Chrisam noun (mixture of oil and balm)
- Chrisma noun (mixture of oil and balm)
Greek
1 entries- Άγιο Μύρο noun (mixture of oil and balm)
Icelandic
1 entries- krisma noun (mixture of oil and balm)
Indonesian
1 entries- krisma noun (mixture of oil and balm)
Italian
1 entries- crisma noun (mixture of oil and balm)
Japanese
1 entries- 聖油 noun (mixture of oil and balm)
Macedonian
1 entries- миро noun (mixture of oil and balm)
Malayalam
1 entries- മൂറോൻ noun (mixture of oil and balm)
Middle English
1 entries- crisme noun (mixture of oil and balm)
Polish
1 entries- krzyżmo noun (mixture of oil and balm)
Portuguese
1 entries- crisma noun (mixture of oil and balm)
Russian
2 entries- еле́й noun (mixture of oil and balm)
- ми́ро noun (mixture of oil and balm)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- krȉzma noun (mixture of oil and balm)
- кризма noun (mixture of oil and balm)
Spanish
1 entries- crisma noun (mixture of oil and balm)
Swedish
1 entries- krisma noun (mixture of oil and balm)
Turkish
1 entries- kutsal yağ noun (mixture of oil and balm)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ми́ро noun (mixture of oil and balm)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
I observe no confirmation of this reversal and Pole specifically restored chrisms in 1555 (Cardwell, op. cit. i. 147).
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‘The King,’ Will cried, ‘is my master and bathed in the chrism of the Lord God.’
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For Christian examples of condensed symbols, consider the sacraments, particularly the Eucharist and the Chrisms.
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