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calices

[ kal-uh-seez ]

noun

  1. the plural of calix.


calices

/ ˈ°ìæ±ôɪˌ²õ¾±Ë³ú /

noun

  1. the plural of calix
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Some of the plants were not yet in bloom, their buds curled in pink, pointed spirals held in the pale green calices, but most were already star-flowering and giving off their strong scent.

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Inventes illic, qui Nestoris ebibat annos: Qu� sit per calices facta Sibylla suos.

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Towards evening every bird became silent, the flowers closed their calices, the leaves of the trees hung limply down.

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Then to please the females, he described to them the reliquaries, feretories, calices, crosiers, crosses, pyxes, monstrances, and other wonders ecclesiastical, and the goblets, hanaps, watches, clocks, chains, brooches, &c., so that their mouths watered.

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The motto, “Vesani calices quid non fecere,†a parody on the line, “Fecundi calices quem non fecere disertum?â€

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