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Definition of chalice in English: chalicenoun ˈtʃalɪsˈtʃæləs historical 1A large cup or goblet. Example sentencesExamples - The next day he presented the Senate and plebs with a banquet, his pure, stainless, and holy body, the bread of angels, of which man has partaken, and he set chalices filled with wine before them.
- Without hesitating, she strode to the pillar supporting the glass chalice and firmly grasped the goblet by the stem.
- Within the Christian tradition it has generally been believed that the Grail was the actual chalice used by Christ at the Last Supper.
- Golden chalices and great swords and weapons hung everywhere.
- I don't think you would get away with a ‘Jesus Bar’ advertised by a leering Christ holding a chalice of wine.
- 1.1 The wine cup used in the Christian Eucharist.
Example sentencesExamples - An updated report on the use of a common communion cup says people may have more to fear from people dipping the bread in the wine than from sipping from the same chalice used by other congregants.
- The infiltration of Manichee notions could be detected when Christians at the Eucharist accepted the host but not the chalice.
- In the 19th century, the temperance and sanitation movements led many Protestants to replace wine and chalice with individual communion cups and grape juice.
- The very entrance of the priest, bearing the veiled chalice and paten and preceded by servers, announces that an action of extraordinary importance is about to be re-enacted.
- I poured some wine into my little chalice and set it before him, but when I reached farther into the kit I discovered to my horror that I had forgotten the wafers.
Origin Middle English: via Old French from Latin calix, calic- 'cup'. poison from Middle English: A poison does not necessarily need to be in liquid form, but in early use the word meant a drink or medicine, specifically a potion with a harmful or dangerous ingredient. The source was Old French poison ‘magic potion’, from Latin potio, also the source of potion (Middle English). The saying one man's meat is another man's poison has been around for centuries and was being described as long ago as 1604 as ‘that old moth-eaten proverb’. A similar idea is found in the work of the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius (c.94–55 bc): ‘What is food to one person may be bitter poison to others.’ A chalice (Middle English) from Latin calix, ‘cup’, also the source of the botanical calix) is a large cup or goblet, and a poisoned chalice something that seems attractive but is likely to be a source of problems. A poisoned chalice features in Shakespeare's Macbeth, and is the source of our expression.
Rhymes Alice, challis, malice, palace, Tallis Definition of chalice in US English: chalicenounˈtʃæləsˈCHaləs historical 1A large cup or goblet, typically used for drinking wine. Example sentencesExamples - Without hesitating, she strode to the pillar supporting the glass chalice and firmly grasped the goblet by the stem.
- The next day he presented the Senate and plebs with a banquet, his pure, stainless, and holy body, the bread of angels, of which man has partaken, and he set chalices filled with wine before them.
- I don't think you would get away with a ‘Jesus Bar’ advertised by a leering Christ holding a chalice of wine.
- Golden chalices and great swords and weapons hung everywhere.
- Within the Christian tradition it has generally been believed that the Grail was the actual chalice used by Christ at the Last Supper.
- 1.1 The wine cup used in the Christian Eucharist.
Example sentencesExamples - In the 19th century, the temperance and sanitation movements led many Protestants to replace wine and chalice with individual communion cups and grape juice.
- The infiltration of Manichee notions could be detected when Christians at the Eucharist accepted the host but not the chalice.
- An updated report on the use of a common communion cup says people may have more to fear from people dipping the bread in the wine than from sipping from the same chalice used by other congregants.
- The very entrance of the priest, bearing the veiled chalice and paten and preceded by servers, announces that an action of extraordinary importance is about to be re-enacted.
- I poured some wine into my little chalice and set it before him, but when I reached farther into the kit I discovered to my horror that I had forgotten the wafers.
Origin Middle English: via Old French from Latin calix, calic- ‘cup’. |