| 单词 | communion cup |
| 释义 | > as lemmascommunion cup communion cup n. a cup used for the wine at the celebration of the Eucharist.Sometimes used in preference to chalice in some churches after the Reformation. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > implement (general) > vessel (general) > cup > [noun] chalicec1000 vessel1340 cupc1449 communion cup1550 ciboire1640 ciboriuma1684 1550 Churchwardens' Accts. St Margaret's, Westminster in Illustr. Antient Times Eng. (1797) 13 The silver..which was delivered to Robert Tayleboys,..for to make thereof IV communion cups. 1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare xiv. 504 An other Iulian President of the East..in like despite of Christe, sate vpon the Holy Communion Cuppes. 1643 Earl of Newcastle Declar. in Answer of Six Groundlesse Aspersions by Ld. Fairefax 8 Their Chalices, or Communion Cupps (let them [sc. the Parliamentarians] call them what they will). 1706 R. Hamersley Advice to Sunday Barbers 16 They may as well steal the Communion Cup from off the Lord's Table, as to steal any part of the Lord's Day. 1850 H. Martineau Let. 10 Dec. in C. Brontë Lett. (2000) II. 527 How wd. the Church of England like to see the street-folk..throwing their Communion cups about, & making the Lord's prayer into doggerel. 1929 Times 8 Apr. 19/3 Sanction to dispose of a communion cup in their possession for $15,000 has been refused. 2007 Church Times 24 Aug. 23/3 Refashioned Elizabethan communion cups made in the first decade of the new Church of England. < as lemmas |
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