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calice

calice is the obsolete form of chalice.

Meaning of chalice

Noun

chalice (plural chalices)

  1. A large drinking cup, often having a stem and base and used especially for formal occasions and religious ceremonies.
    • [W]e but teach / Bloody Inſtructions, which, being taught, returne / To plague th' Inuentor. This euen-handed Iuſtice / Commends th' Ingredience of our poyſon'd Challice / To our owne lips.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
    Synonyms:
    goblet
  2. A kind of water-cooled pipe for smoking cannabis.

Forms of calice

pluralcalices

Questions about calice

What is calice the obsolete form of?
Calice is the obsolete form of chalice.

Words near calice in the dictionary

  1. calibres
  2. Caliburn
  3. calic-
  4. Calica
  5. Calicas
  6. calice
  7. caliceal
  8. calicectasis
  9. calicene
  10. calices
  11. caliche

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Adapted from Wiktionary: calice (page history and authors); chalice (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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