Eucharistialn.
/juːkəˈrɪstɪəl/ A vessel intended to hold the bread consecrated for use at the Eucharist.
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1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) II. vii. 39 The eucharistial, or ‘new sepulchre of the body of Christ’, in which was reserved the eucharist under the form of bread.
1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) II. ix. 46 The rubric ordered that the housel..should be kept..under the kind of bread in a vessel called the eucharistial.
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