† ˈfont-stone Obs.
[f. font n.1 + stone.]
The stone font used in baptism.
| c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 149 Þet ȝe habbeð et þe fonstan under⁓fonge. 1297 R. Glouc. (1724) 247 Of holy vantston. c 1380 Sir Ferumb. 548 Had he beo in crist be-leued, & fulled in holi fanston. 1426 Audelay Poems 11 This foreward furst we mad at the fonsston. 1594 ? Greene Selimus Wks. 1881–3 XIV. 267 They shal swear it vpon the font-stone. 1682 R. Burton Admirable Curiosities (1684) 121 As clean from my Sins as I was at the Font-stone. 1830 Scott Demonol. v. 147 If she would but deny..the faith she took at the font-stone. |