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pyx

or pix

[ piks ]

noun

  1. Ecclesiastical.
    1. the box or vessel in which the reserved Eucharist or Host is kept.
    2. a watch-shaped container for carrying the Eucharist to the sick.
  2. Also called pyx chest. a box or chest at a mint, in which specimen coins are deposited and reserved for trial by weight and assay.


pyx

/ pɪks /

noun

  1. Also calledpyx chest the chest in which coins from the British mint are placed to be tested for weight, etc
  2. Christianity any receptacle in which the Eucharistic Host is kept
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of pyx1

1350–1400; Middle English pyxe < Latin pyxis < Greek pyxís a box, originally made of boxwood
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Word History and Origins

Origin of pyx1

C14: from Latin pyxis small box, from Greek, from puxos box tree
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Example Sentences

With the consecrated Eucharist in a pyx worn close to his heart, Carlos - known as “Father Josh” to many of his parishioners - carried a cross with him the first time, blessing the faithful curbside.

Members found 50 feet of gold chain and a gold-filigree pyx, or frame.

He blends piety and passion in the most mystically amorous fashion; with the cantando expressivo in D, begins some lovely music, secular in spirit, mayhap intended by its creator for reredos and pyx.

Only a very small particle is to be brought in the pyx.

Then to please the females, he described to them the reliquaries, feretories, calices, crosiers, crosses, pyxes, monstrances, and other wonders ecclesiastical, and the goblets, hanaps, watches, clocks, chains, brooches, &c., so that their mouths watered.

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