chalice

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In like manner also the chalice, after he had supped, saying: This chalice is the new testament in my blood.

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  1. noun A cup or goblet.
  2. noun A cup for the consecrated wine of the Eucharist.

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  • A vessel formed like a chalice, and having a raised cover; borne by the BOTILERS, BUTLERS, &c Cushion_, Pillow_, Oreiller_. —  The Handbook to English Heraldry
  • Then by your own confession must it needs be that we worship a false god in the chalice, which is unconjured when we worship the bread, and worship the one as the other; but where find ye that ever Christ or any of His disciples taught any man to worship this bread or wine Therefore, what shall we say of the apostles that were so much with Christ, and were called by the Holy Ghost; had they forgotten to set it in the creed when they made it, which is Christian men's belief? —  The World's Great Sermons, Volume 01 Basil to Calvin
  • In like manner also the chalice, after he had supped, saying: This chalice is the new testament in my blood. —  The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  • Messire Gawain looketh at the Graal, and it seemed him that a chalice was therein, albeit none there was as at this time, and he seeth the point of the lance whence the red blood ran thereinto, and it seemeth him he seeth two angels that bear two candlesticks of gold filled with candles. —  The High History of the Holy Graal
  • "It seems that having the public drink from the chalice is an unnecessary risk," the letter states. —  Local News | The Bryan College Station Eagle
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin calix, calic-.

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  1. from Middle English chalice, also calice, from Old French *chalice, calice, modern F. calice = Provencal calitz = Spanish caliz = Portuguese calis, calix = Italian calice = Anglo-Saxon calic = Old Saxon kelik = Dutch kelk = Old High German chelih, kelih, Middle High German G. kelch = Icelandic kālkr = Danish kalk, from Latin calix (calic-), a cup, = Sanskrit kalaça, a cup, waterpot; cf. Greek κν/λιξ, a cup: see calix and calyx.
 

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