chal·ice

(chăl′ĭs)

1. A cup or goblet.

2. A cup for the consecrated wine of the Eucharist.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin calix, calic-.]

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chalice

(ˈtʃælɪs)

1. poetic a drinking cup; goblet

2. (Roman Catholic Church) Christianity a gold or silver cup containing the wine at Mass

3. (Botany) the calyx of a flower, esp a cup-shaped calyx

[C13: from Old French, from Latin calix cup; related to Greek kalux calyx]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

chal•ice

(ˈtʃæl ɪs)

n.

1. a cup for the wine of the Eucharist.

2. a drinking cup or goblet.

3. a cuplike blossom.

[1350–1400; < Old French < Latin calicem < calix cup; compare early Middle English caliz < Anglo-French, Old English cælc, calic < Latin]

chalice

- From Latin calix, "cup," and Greek kalux, "pod."

chalice

Used in modern witchcraft, this is a cup or goblet often associated with the element Water.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

chalice - a bowl-shaped drinking vessel; especially the Eucharistic cup

goblet

cup - a small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle; "he put the cup back in the saucer"; "the handle of the cup was missing"

Translations

كأسُ نَبيذ، كأسُ القُرْبان

kalichpohár

bægerkalk

Kelch

cáliz

calice

kehely

bikar; kaleikur

calice

taurė

biķerisvīna kauss

kelk

alterkalk

потир

kalich

kelih

kadeh

圣餐杯

chalice

[ˈtʃælɪs] N (Rel) → cáliz m
see also poison B2

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

chalice

[ˈtʃælɪs] n → calice m poisoned chalice

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

chalice

n (poet, Eccl) → Kelch m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

chalice

[ˈtʃælɪs] n → calice m

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

chalice

(ˈtʃӕlis) noun

a wine-cup, especially one used in religious services.

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Foinet sat down at the easel of an untidy little Englishwoman called Ruth Chalice. She had the fine black eyes, languid but passionate, the thin face, ascetic but sensual, the skin like old ivory, which under the influence of Burne-Jones were cultivated at that time by young ladies in Chelsea.

Then she talked of Ruth Chalice, the girl whom Foinet had praised that morning.

He had heard already that various rumours were in circulation about Miss Chalice; but it was ridiculous to suppose that Mrs.

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A poet admires the bee sucking from the chalice of a flower and says it exists to suck the fragrance of flowers.

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To us, over the golden grasses, came the Story Girl, carrying in her hand a single large poppy, like a blood-red chalice filled with the wine of August wizardry.

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He therefore bought a telescope, which enabled him to watch as accurately as did the owner himself every progressive development of the flower, from the moment when, in the first year, its pale seed-leaf begins to peep from the ground, to that glorious one, when, after five years, its petals at last reveal the hidden treasures of its chalice. How often had the miserable, jealous man to observe in Van Baerle's beds tulips which dazzled him by their beauty, and almost choked him by their perfection!

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He loved to kneel down on the cold marble pavement and watch the priest, in his stiff flowered dalmatic, slowly and with white hands moving aside the veil of the tabernacle, or raising aloft the jewelled, lantern-shaped monstrance with that pallid wafer that at times, one would fain think, is indeed the "panis caelestis," the bread of angels, or, robed in the garments of the Passion of Christ, breaking the Host into the chalice and smiting his breast for his sins.

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It had been a call to the blood and to the relaxed will, a passing benediction whose influence did not pass, a holiness, a spell, a momentary chalice for youth.

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Commend the murderous chalices! Bestow them, ye who are now made parties to this indissoluble league.

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We carried with us our tent, our chalices, and ornaments, and all that was necessary for saying mass.

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It seemed to him that the voice of the bishop's, but just now so playful and gay, had become funereal and sad; that the wax lights changed into the tapers of a mortuary chapel, the very glasses of wine into chalices of blood.

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