詞源

來自中古英語 、、、、，來自古英語 (“聖水”)，等同於 +‎ 。

名詞

(通常不可數，複數)

1. (基督教) 聖水
   • 1660, Jeremy Taylor, The Worthy Communicant; or a Discourse of the Nature, Effects, and Blessings consequent to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper

     None comes to this holy feast but they whose sins are cleansed in baptism, who are sanctified in those holy waters of regeneration, who have obedient souls,

   • 1889, Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy, Fifty Years in the Church of Rome，頁號 307:

     ... with our signs of the cross and holy waters, our crucifixes and prayers to the saints, our scapulars and medals, our so humiliating auricular confession

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

   • 1979, "The Catechesis of Cyril of Jerusalem", translated by Lucien Deiss, Matthew J. O'Connell, in Springtime of the Liturgy

     In a parallel way, when you came up from the font and its holy waters, you received chrismation and the mark with which Christ was chrismated.