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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 805 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHALICE (through a central O. Fr. See also:form of the See also:Lat. calix, calicis, See also:cup)  , a drinking-See also:vessel of the See also:cup or See also:goblet See also:form, now only used of the cup used in the celebration of the See also:Eucharist (q.v.) . For the various forms which the " See also:chalice " so used has taken, see DRINKING-VESSELS and See also:PLATE . When, in the eucharistic service, See also:water is mixed with the See also:wine, the " chalice " is known as the " mixed chalice." This has been customary both in the Eastern and Western Churches from See also:early times . The Armenian See also:Church does not use the " mixed chalice." It was used in the See also:English Church before the See also:Reformation . According to the See also:present See also:law of the English Church, the mixing of the water with wine is lawful, if this is not done as See also:part of or during the services, i.e, if it is not done ceremonially (See also:Martin v . Mackonochie, 1868, L.R . 2 P.C . 365; Read v . Bp. of See also:Lincoln, 1892, A.C . 664) .

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