grail (1), graile (1), grayle (1)

[O. Fr. greel; from Low Lat. gradale.] The same as GRADUAL (B. 2). "The old Popish service-books were still preserved and used by curates, as they stood affected: of which there were divers and sundry sorts, according to the various religious offices, such as antiphonals, mi als, grails , proce ionals, ." -Strype: Memorials ; Edward VI ., an. 1549. pine, pit, sïre, sir, marine; gō, pot, grail *grail (2), *graile (2), *grayle (2), s . [O. Fr. gruile; from Lat. gracilis slender.] 1. Small particles of any kind; sand, gravel. 2. One of the small feathers of a hawk. *grāil (3), *graile (3), *grayle (3), s. [O. Fr. graal, greal , grasal a flat dish; from Low Lat. gradale , grasale .] Properly applied to the legendary dish used at the Last Supper, said to have been stolen by a servant of Pilate, used by him to wash his hands in before the multitude, afterward given to Joseph of A rima the a as a memorial of Christ, and finally used by Joseph to collect the blood which flowed from our Lord while hanging on the cro . "This," said He [Christ], " is the holy dish wherein sate the lamb on St. Kerthin's day." ( Mal ory: Morte Arthure, bk. xvii., ch. xx.) The word (which is commonly qualified by the adjective san , saint, sayn, sant =holy) was afterward applied to the cup used at the Last Supper. According to one legend, the Holy Grail was brought by Joseph of A rima the a to England, where he settled at Glastonbury about A. D. 63. Finally it was transported to India, where it still remains. In A. D. 1101 the Crusaders, at the capture of Cesarea, found what they believed to be the veritable Holy Grail, a dish made of a singlo large emerald. It is now preserved in the Cathedral of San Lorenzo, in Genoa. Another legend says that the holy ve el was brought from heaven by angels, and intrusted to the care of a body of knights, who guarded and watched it on the top of a high mountain. It was invisible to any one not perfectly pure. The search, or quest, for the Holy Grail after its lo or disappearance, formed the subject of numerous romances or poems, such as those of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. "And when King Arthur made His table round, and all men's hearts became Clean for a season, surely he had thought That now the Holy Grail would come again." Tennyson: The Holy Grail.