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語源 1

From Middle English graal, greal, from Old French graal, greal (“cup”), from Medieval Latin gradalis, possibly corrupted over time from Latin crater (“bowl”).

名詞

grail (複数形 grails)

1. The Holy Grail.
   • 1989, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, OCLC 1037203438, spoken by Henry Jones, Sr. (Sean Connery):

     The quest for the Grail is not archeology. It's a race against evil. If it is captured by the Nazis, the armies of darkness will march all over the face of the earth. Do you understand me?

2. Something eagerly sought or quested for.
   • 2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 214:

     How many of them had found the item they dreamt of, their personal grails?

   Becoming an astronaut was his grail.

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• Sangrail

語源 2

From Middle English grayel, from Old French grael, ultimately from Latin graduale. Doublet of gradual.

名詞

grail (複数形 grails)

1. A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.
   • 1694, John Strype, the Memorials of Thomas Cranmer

     antiphonals, missals, grails, processionals, etc.

語源 3

Origin uncertain; perhaps a reduced form of gravel.

名詞

grail (uncountable)

1. (poetic) Small particles of earth; gravel.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 1, canto 7:

     Hereof this gentle knight vnweeting was, / And lying downe vpon the sandie graile, / Drunke of the streame, as cleare as cristall glas [...].