chalice

[ chal-is ]
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noun
  1. Ecclesiastical.

    • a cup for the wine of the Eucharist or Mass.

    • the wine contained in it.

  2. a drinking cup or goblet.

  1. a cuplike blossom.

Origin of chalice

1
before 900; Middle English <Middle French <Latin calici- (stem of calix) cup; replacing Middle English caliz, calc,Old English calic<Latin calici-, as above

Other words from chalice

  • chal·iced [chal-ist], /ˈtʃæl ɪst/, adjective

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British Dictionary definitions for chalice

chalice

/ (ˈtʃælɪs) /


noun
  1. poetic a drinking cup; goblet

  2. Christianity a gold or silver cup containing the wine at Mass

  1. the calyx of a flower, esp a cup-shaped calyx

Origin of chalice

1
C13: from Old French, from Latin calix cup; related to Greek kalux calyx

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