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1. The Grail or the Holy Grail is the cup that was used by Jesus Christ at the Last Supper. In medieval times, many people tried to find the Grail without success. N-PROPER 2. If you describe something as a grail or a holy grail, you mean that someone is trying very hard to obtain or achieve it. The discovery is being hailed as The Holy Grail of astronomy. N-SING: oft the N of n
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noun Etymology: Middle English greal, graal, from Middle French, bowl, ~, from Medieval Latin gradalis 1. capitalized the cup or platter used according to medieval legend by Christ at the Last Supper and thereafter the object of knightly quests 2. the object of an extended or difficult quest ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. (in full Holy Grail) 1 (in medieval legend) the cup or platter used by Christ at the Last Supper, and in which Joseph of Arimathea received Christ's blood at the Cross, esp. as the object of quests by medieval knights. 2 any object of a quest. Etymology: ME f. OF graal etc. f. med.L gradalis dish, of unkn. orig. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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hum. gen. abbr. Gene Recognition and Analysis Internet Link NASA abbr. Gravitational Radiation Antenna In Leiden transport. abbr. Geographic Roadway Application For Information Location ...English abbreviation dictionary
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- 12c., from O.Fr. graal "cup," earlier "flat dish," from M.L. gradalis "a flat dish or shallow vessel," ult. from L. crater "bowl," from Gk. krater "bowl, especially for mixing wine with water." Holy Grail is M.E. Sangreal (Saint graal), grafted awkwardly onto the Celtic Arthurian legends 12c. by Church scribes in place of some pagan Otherworldly object. It was said to be the cup into which Joseph of Arimathea received the last drops of blood of Christ (according to the writers who picked up the thread of Chrйtien de Troyes' "Perceval") or the dish from which Christ ate the Last Supper (Robert de Boron), and was ultimately identified as both. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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