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Brewer's: Calixtines
(3 syl.). A religious sect of Bohemians in the fifteenth century; so called from Calix (the chalice), which they insisted should be given to the laity in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, as well as the bread or wafer.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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