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Definition of Graal
1. n. See Grail, a dish.
Definition of Graal
1. grail [n -S] - See also: grail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Graal
Literary usage of Graal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Map is said to have written a Latin history of the graal, which is not now extant;
yet from it all the authors of the French prose romances on Arthur and ..."
2. Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum by Harry Leigh Douglas Ward, John Alexander Herbert (1883)
"SAINT graal. The prose romance, how Joseph of Arimathea brought to England the
dish out of which the Last Supper was eaten, filled with the blood of Christ, ..."
3. The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"The holy graal lay thus at the foundation of the Christian priesthood. St.
Joseph of Arimathea, in some forms of the legend, was the ever-living possessor ..."
4. History of English Poetry from the Twelfth to the Close of the Sixteenth Century by Thomas Warton, William Carew Hazlitt, Richard Price (1871)
"... need.2 Here alfo the graal maintains the fan£Hty of its character, ...
the graal became localized : Four miles from Dann, St. Barbara's hill is feen to ..."
5. Studies on the Legend of the Holy Grail: With Especial References to the by Alfred Trübner Nutt (1888)
"The Fisher King in the Conte du graal, in the Queste, and in Borrón and the Grand
St. graal—The accounts of latter complete each other—The Fish is the ..."
6. The Musical World (1878)
"Wagner's assertion that their motives are nearly inexhaustible has again been
proved by him, for the sagas of the graal and of the Swan, which furnished him ..."
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