chalice
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ɪs noun
1.
Ecclesiastical.
a.
a cup for the wine of the Eucharist or Mass.
b.
the wine contained in it.
2.
a drinking cup or goblet.
3.
a cuplike blossom.
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| —n | |
| 1. | poetic a drinking cup; goblet |
| 2. | Christianity a gold or silver cup containing the wine at Mass |
| 3. | the calyx of a flower, esp a cup-shaped calyx |
| [C13: from Old French, from Latin calix cup; related to Greek kalux calyx] | |
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Word Origin & History
chalice
12c., from Anglo-Fr., from L. calix (acc. calicem) "cup," cognate with Gk. kylix. Ousted O.E. cognate cælic, an ecclesiastical borrowing of the L. word.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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chalice
a cup used in the celebration of the Christian Eucharist. Both the statement of St. Paul about "the cup of blessing which we bless" (1 Corinthians 10:16) and the accounts of the institution of the Eucharist in the first three Gospels indicate that special rites of consecration attended the use of the chalice from the beginning. It was not until the recognition of Christianity by the Roman Empire in the 4th century that silver and gold became the usual materials for the chalice. In the Middle Ages the legend of the Holy Grail surrounded the origins of the eucharistic chalice with a magical aura.
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Example sentences
He drinks wine out of gold goblets and eats cereal out of a turquoise chalice.
Faith, gowned in purest white and surrounded by a halo of divine light, holds a chalice with a serpent she need not fear.
Our destiny offers, not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity.
Faith is identified by her now-broken cross and chalice.
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