sangrail
(sæŋˈgreɪl)
In 5 sangrayle, -grayll(e, seynt graal, 7–9 sangreal, 9 sangreall.
[a. OF. Saint Graal ‘Holy Grail’: see saint a. and grail2.
The pseudo-etymological form sang roial (confusing the word with sang-royal 2) appears in AF. of the 15th c.: see Godefr. Compl. s.v. sanc. Another spurious etymology formerly common appears in the following quot.:—
1685 Stillingfl. Orig. Brit. i. 13 Others think that the word was Sangreal, being some of Christ's real blood..said to be somewhere found by King Arthur.]
1. = grail2.
| a 1450 Le Morte Arth. 10 The knights of the table Round, The sangrayle when they had sought. c 1450 Merlin ii. 32 Thi boke shalbe cleped the boke of the seynt Graal. 1470–85 Malory Arthur ii. xi. 88 Soone after the aduentures of the Sangrayll shalle come among yow and be encheued. 1808 Scott Marm. i. Introd. Epist. 268 He took the Sangreal's holy quest. 1871 G. Meredith H. Richmond II. 145 They bear the veiled sun like a sangreal aloft to the wavy marble flooring of stainless cloud. |
† 2. The book of the Grail. Obs.
| 1470–85 Malory Arthur ii. xiii. 91 As it telleth after in the sangraylle. |