[f. L. eucharisti-a + -AL.] A vessel intended to hold the bread consecrated for use at the Eucharist.
1844. Lingard, Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858), II. i. 35. The eucharistial, or ‘new sepulchre of the body of Christ,’ in which was reserved the eucharist under the form of bread. Ibid., II. 42. The rubric ordered that the housel … should be kept … under the kind of bread in a vessel called the eucharistial.
