cyathus
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cyathi
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Origin of cyathus
< Latin < Greek kyáthos kyathos
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There is something odd, mystical, and shall we say affected, about both the Brownings, which mars their general effect—the wine is good, but the shape of the cyathus is deliberately queer.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various
Each cup shall be broken, Each tower shall fall, All drink be bitter, Bitter as gall, The dark heart go lonely— Save for one tower, One cyathus only, One wine of power!
From Perpetual Light : a memorial by William Rose Benét
After this he pours in a cyathus and a half of beer.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
Cyathiformis is from cyathus, a drinking cup; formis, form or shape.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
Cheer up, my lass, and sing us a stave or two, as we go; for I’ll pledge a cyathus of unmixed, that, if you choose, you can warble notes as sweet as the manna gum.”
From Callista : a Tale of the Third Century by John Henry Newman
We drank half-a-dozen cyathi a-piece of ancient Alban to Pholoë's health; and after bathing, and playing an hour at ball, we mounted our essedum again, and proceeded up the mount to the temple.
From A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by George Saintsbury
And in the same manner, after supper there was given to each guest not more than two cyathi of wine, and this too was brought to each person as he made a sign for it.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
How completely would the hookah and the narghileh have harmonized with the crater, cyathi, and tripods of the triclinium in that portraiture of the "Decadence of Rome" which hangs in the Luxembourg Gallery!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 by Various
We drank half a dozen cyathi apiece of ancient Alban to Pholoe's health, and after bathing and playing an hour at ball, we mounted our essedum again, and proceeded up the mount to the temple.
From Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson
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