a. and sb. [ad. med.L. chrismālis f. chrisma CHRISM; see -AL.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to chrism.
1659. L’Estrange, Alliance Div. Off., ix. E. 269 The Chrismal Unguent should be first consecrated, as was the use of those times, by the Bishop.
1674. Brevint, Saul at Endor, 316. He blows three times cross-ways over the mouth of the greater otherwise called the Chrismal Bottle.
1851. Sir F. Palgrave, Norm. & Eng., v. 691. Whilst Robert-Rollo wore the white Chrismal vestment.
1876. Farrar, Marlb. Serm., v. 43. O, that on this day He would indeed outpour upon each youthful head the chrismal fires of His sevenfold gifts.
B. sb. In various senses of med.L. chrismāle, as the chrisom-cloth, the vessel or flask for holding the chrism, a cloth for covering relics, the pyx, etc.
1844. Lingard, Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858), I. vii. 292. A white linen cap, called a chrismal.
1863. N. & Q., 3 Ser. III. 396. The ‘high-standing pix’ was the chrismal, or ciborium, as it is now called.
1883. Bellett, trans. Pelliccia’s Polity Chr. Ch., I. I. iii. § 4. The Presbyters then began to pay sums of money to the Bishop for the Chrism,—which sums were called … ‘Chrismals.’
