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CHALICE

Volume 5 · 58 words · 1815 Edition

the cup or vessel used to administer the wine in the sacrament, and by the Roman Catholics in the mass.

The use of the chalice, or communicanting in both kinds, is by the church of Rome denied to the laity, who communicate only in one kind, the clergy alone being allowed the privilege of communicating in both kinds.