Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a cup, as a flower.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having a calyx or cup; cup-shaped.

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  • adjective Having a calyx or cup; cup-shaped.

Etymologies

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chalice +‎ -ed

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Examples

  • I say it with a chaliced grin; my daily grind is done before the dawn begins to smile its welcoming at break of day.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2008

  • I say it with a chaliced grin; my daily grind is done before the dawn begins to smile its welcoming at break of day.

    Versatility, It Is The Key Ivan Donn Carswell 2008

  • The latter, therefore, would be a more likely engagement than the former when leisure is chaliced be hostile economic forces that make it costly.

    On That ASAUK Paper 2006

  • The latter, therefore, would be a more likely engagement than the former when leisure is chaliced be hostile economic forces that make it costly.

    Archive 2006-10-01 2006

  • The latter, therefore, would be a more likely engagement than the former when leisure is chaliced be hostile economic forces that make it costly.

    Muhtar Bakare's ASAUK Paper 2006

  • They can never, of course, get very far away from the regions skirted by eternal frost, for their cup of joy must be chaliced by the snow-flake, or their beautiful life is soon ended.

    Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright

  • Holding within their billowed masses the healing punishments of the rain, chaliced beakers of golden flame, lightnings instant and unbearable as the face of God -- dissolving into a crystal nothing, reborn from the viewless caverns of air -- here let us erect one enraptured altar to the bright mountains of the sky!

    Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923

  • By chaliced shell-holes stained with life's rich wine.

    The Great War As I Saw It Frederick George Scott 1902

  • Deep within the farthest heart of each chaliced flower.

    A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass Amy Lowell 1899

  • And the flowers their chaliced lamps for love illuming.

    Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse Various 1866

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