— chaliced /chal"ist/ , adj.
/chal"is/ , n.
1. Eccles.
a. a cup for the wine of the Eucharist or Mass.
b. the wine contained in it.
2. a drinking cup or goblet.
3. a cuplike blossom.
[ bef. 900; ME calici- (s. of calix ) cup; r. ME caliz, calc, OE calic calici-, as above ]