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Chalice vs Grail - What's the difference?

chalice | grail |

As nouns the difference between chalice and grail

is that chalice is a large drinking cup, often having a stem and base and used especially for formal occasions and religious ceremonies while grail is the Holy Grail.

chalice

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A large drinking cup, often having a stem and base and used especially for formal occasions and religious ceremonies.
  • * 1612 , , Macbeth (First Folio), act 1, scene 7,
    • This euen-handed Iu?tice
    Commends th'Ingredience of our poy?on'd Challice
    To our owne lips.

    Synonyms

    * (large drinking cup) goblet

    Derived terms

    * poisoned chalice

    Anagrams

    * ----

    grail

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) gradalis.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The Holy Grail.
  • The object of an extended or difficult quest.[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grail]
  • :Becoming an astronaut was his grail .

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) grael, ultimately from (etyl) graduale.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.
  • * Strype
    • antiphonals, missals, grails , processionals, etc.

    Etymology 3

    Origin uncertain; perhaps a reduced form of (gravel).

    Noun

    (-)
  • (poetic) Small particles of earth; gravel.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.vii:
  • *:Hereof this gentle knight vnweeting was, / And lying downe vpon the sandie graile , / Drunke of the streame, as cleare as cristall glas [...].

    • Etymology 4

    Compare (etyl) graite slender.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of the small feathers of a hawk.

    • Anagrams

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