Definitions for chalice

chalice chal·ice

Spelling: [chal-is]
IPA: /ˈtʃæl ɪs/

Chalice is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 125 anagrams from letters in chalice (accehil).

Definitions for chalice

noun

  1. Ecclesiastical. a cup for the wine of the Eucharist or Mass. the wine contained in it.
  2. a drinking cup or goblet.
  3. a cuplike blossom.

Origin of chalice

before 900; Middle English Middle French Latin calici- (stem of calix) cup; replacing Middle English caliz, calc, Old English calic Latin calici-, as above

Examples for chalice

Our destiny offers, not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity.

At Guimarães the chalice of São Torquato is of the thirteenth century.

Specifically, the cup-sharing method, in which one chalice is filled and re-used by all parishioners.

The lamb stands upon an altar and bleeds into a chalice—the Holy Grail.

The second book, The chalice, recently came out in paperback.

But the Wee Folk were under a cloud; sceptical hints had embittered the chalice.

The Offertory having been recited, the priest uncovered the chalice.

BH: Now tell me about the community of women you wrote and imagined in The chalice—a priory of Dominican nuns.

When, after the offertory, Pierre uncovered the chalice he felt contempt for himself.

Does this mean wiping the chalice or arranging flowers on the altar?

Word Value for chalice
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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