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 orcup ; cup-shaped.
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The latter, therefore, would be a more likely engagement than the former when leisure is chaliced be hostile economic forces that make it costly.
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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
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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
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By chaliced shell-holes stained with life's rich wine.
The Great War As I Saw It Frederick George Scott 1902
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Deep within the farthest heart of each chaliced flower.
A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass Amy Lowell 1899
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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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