chrismatory
noun
a receptacle for chrism.
chrismatories
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pluralof chrismatory.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Upon goblets, chrismatories and crosses in the churches they are generally written in gold; while myriads of crosses on headstones in the graveyards bear the same mystical letters.
From The Youthful Wanderer An Account of a Tour through England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany by Heffner, George H.
In country churches in Oxfordshire there were silver chalices and patens, pyxes, censers, candlesticks, chrismatories, crosses, sanctus bells, and other articles of plate.
From English Villages by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
