† chrisomern.
Obsolete.
1.
a. A newly-baptized child, still wearing the chrisom or christening robe; an innocent babe; an infant that died within a month of baptism.
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the world > people > person > baby or infant > [noun]
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baban?c1225
fauntekin1377
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lakinc1440
mop1440
chrisomer1574
tenderling1587
chrisom1596
childling1648
flosculet1648
bratling1652
lullaby-cheat1665
strangera1674
child (also infant, baby) in armsa1675
hoppet1695
tot1725
bambino1761
weanie1786
tiny1797
dot1800
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toddles1828
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dab1833
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baba1841
arrival1846
teeny-tiny1849
toddlekins1852
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nestler1866
spoon-child1868
bubby1885
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kiddy1889
toddleskin1890
newborn1893
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kidling1899
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bundle of joy1924
liddly1929
mammet1932
snork1941
kiddywink1957
sproglet1987
the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [noun] > dead child
chrisom1542
chrisomer1574
1574–5 Reg. Holy Cross, Canterb. 9 Jan. A chrisomer, ye chelde of Henry Jenkynson, bu[ried].
1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 218 She had brought foorth two monsters, Lambert and Peter..neither were they Crisomers, but such childe-choppers, that as soone as ever they were borne, they were able to wage warre with a mighty King.
1692 Par. Reg. St. Michael's Bristol John Hall, chrisomer, bur. 4 June.
b. Perhaps: an ‘innocent’, an idiot.
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1567 Par. Reg. Herne, Kent in Biblioth. Topogr. I. 99 Ould Arnold, a crysomer, buried February 8.
2. Perhaps: an unbaptized child.
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1886 Notes & Queries 7th S. II. 96 A portion of the Churchyard..which he designated Chrisomers' Hill, where, said he [sexton, c1840] ‘the unbaptized children be always buried’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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