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What is a calix?

What is a calix? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Dated form of calyx.
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Poculum or flûte, calix rather than glass, the history of civilisation could be narrated through the imaginative and bizarre forms that man has given to glasses, goblets and jugs.
By deciding to embrace suffering he savored, as though intoxicated by that sweet and bitter inebriation, the joy of those words of the psalmist: et calix tuus inebrians quam praeclarus est!
Most all of them had rough blotches or rings about the calix or around the body.
You will observe that in some flowers the calix is composed of four or more parts.
If either of these whorls is absent in a flower, it is the calix.
And if we wish to penetrate the secret we must not forget the Hebrew psalmist, with his calix meus inebrians quam prclarus est.

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