pyx
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /pɪks/
pyx (plural pyxes)
- A small, usually round container used to hold the consecrated bread of the Eucharist, especially used to bring communion to the sick, or others who are unable to attend Mass.
- 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 273:
- The slight breach was fortunately committed by a distant relation of the Archbishop of Toledo, and consisted merely in his entering the church intoxicated, (a rare vice in Spaniards), attempting to drag the matin preacher from the pulpit, and failing in that, getting astride as well as he could on the altar, dashing down the tapers, overturning the vases and the pix, and trying to scratch out, as with the talons of a demon, the painting that hung over the table, uttering all the while the most horrible blasphemies, and even soliciting the portrait of the Virgin in language not to be repeated.
- 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 273:
- A box used in the British mint as a place of deposit for certain sample coins taken for a trial of the weight and fineness of metal before it is sent from the mint.
- (nautical) The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle.
- (anatomy) Pyxis.
- Italian: pisside
pyx (pyxes, present participle pyxing; past and past participle pyxed)
- (transitive) To test (sample coins) for the weight and fineness of metal before they are sent from the mint.
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