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Definition of Chalice
1. Noun. A bowl-shaped drinking vessel; especially the Eucharistic cup.
Definition of Chalice
1. n. A cup or bowl; especially, the cup used in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper.
Definition of Chalice
1. Noun. A large drinking cup, often having a stem and base and used especially for formal occasions and religious ceremonies. ¹
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Definition of Chalice
1. a drinking cup [n -S] : CHALICED [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chalice
Literary usage of Chalice
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions by Glasgow Archaeological Society, British Pomological Society (1899)
"In 1854 a chalice and paten of pewter were found at the left side of a body at
Old Sarum.1 When the church Pewter Coffin chalice ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The laws of the Northumbrian priests imposed a fine upon all who should "hallow
housel" in a wooden chalice and the so-called canons of ..."
3. Old English Plate, Ecclesiastical, Decorative, and Domestic: Its Makers and by Wilfred Joseph Cripps (1894)
"They were somewhat easily broken off; nud when a chalice had lost one or more of
them, ... It will be seen from the engravings of Bishop Fox's chalice (No. ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"chalice OF ST. REMT.—When visiting the cathedral at Rheims in May last, I examined
with great pleasure the fine collection of church plate there preserved, ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The next alteration in the form of chalice. FIG. 16. ... In some few cases a real
chalice was buried with some ecclesiastic of rank, ..."
6. Divine Worship in England in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries by John David Chambers (1877)
"This Ablution of the fingers over the chalice and triple ... the Particle which
has remained in the chalice, and let him hold out to the Deacon the chalice ..."
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