chrismationn.
Application of the chrism; sacramental unction.
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1537 Abp. Lee in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. ii. App. lxxxviii. 229 He that is baptized is but initiate, that is, entred: and that by chrysmation of the bishop he is made perfect.
1642 Bp. J. Taylor Of Sacred Order Episcopacy xxxiii The case is evident that chrismation, or consigning with ointment, was us'd in baptism.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Ampullæ were also used for holding the oil used in chrismation.
1880 J. S. Stallybrass tr. J. Grimm Teutonic Mythol. I. i. 3 Among the Goths chrismation is administered to Sigibert's wife Brunechild.
1962 in P. F. Anson Bishops at Large (1964) ix. 426 The first contingent of these clerics..received Chrismation.
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