Talk:chrismus
Add topicI have no idea where this is from. It does not appear in any dictionaries I have seen. All I can say is I have incontrovertible that the word was in use in both meanings, the "eucharist" meaning certainly from the 1570s (and always in the context of the three sacraments of initiation (as opposed to the Catholic seven sacraments, particularly in a Polish context?). The Christogram meaning is later, and probably unrelated, apparently derived from an earlier form chrismon (in use from at least the 1660s, see this 1669 inscription), but the masculine chrismus I find used in this sense only in the mid 18th century in German literature on Crismologia, i.e. the specialised discipline of studying medieval sigils). --Dbachmann (talk) 14:23, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
