Meanings
chrystal1
plural chrystals
- countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete spelling of crystal.
- not comparableobsoleteObsolete spelling of crystal.
Conſider there how black and fowl your Sin / Is rendred by my Chryſtal innocence: […]
c. 1635–39?, Richard Brome, The Queen and Concubine. A Comedie, London: […] A. Crook, and Hen. Brome, […], published 1659, act IV, scene III, page 812 more examples
We had one heavy shower on leaving Sittingbourne, but afterwards the clouds cleared away, and we had a very bright chrystal afternoon.
1798 October 24, Jane Austen, “Letter VIII”, in Edward, Lord Brabourne, editor, Letters of Jane Austen, volume I, London: Richard Bentley & Son, […], published 1884, →OCLC, pages 155–156If we weep by Babel’s streams, the sparkle of our chrystal tears, touch the beam which kindles from above; […]
1848, The Dirge; or, A Voice in the Night. Originally Addressed to a Clergyman at Edinburgh, 1845., Edinburgh: […] Anderson and Bryce, […], →OCLC, page 575
Chrystal2
Origin
Variant spelling of Crystal.
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chrystal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chrystal
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