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  • Ðonne se sácerd smyreð mid þám hálgan crisman breóst and sculdru, þonne beféhð hé þæne man mid Godes scylde,

      Wlfst. 35, 16.

  • Ásprungenra manna líc (

    cadavera

    ) man byreð on ciricean and mid crysman smyreð his breóst,
      Ll. Th. ii. 162, 1.

  • Ne crismena nec balsamorum (sacris chrismatibu unctum, Ald. 154), Wrt. Voc. ii. 91, 34: 61, 1. I a.

    the sacred character conferred by unction

    :-- Se biscop forlét his crisman and his róde and his gástlican wǽpnu, and féng tó his spere and tó his swurde,
      Chr. 1056; P. 187, 24.
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  • Under crisman ádle forgripen

    in albis adhuc positus, langore correptus,

      Bd. 5, 7; Sch. 584, 2.

  • Under crismum

    in albis,

      An. Ox. 2, 66.
  • Crysmum, 2127.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “crisma.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/42148.

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