pyx
Americannoun
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Ecclesiastical.
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the box or vessel in which the reserved Eucharist or Host is kept.
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a watch-shaped container for carrying the Eucharist to the sick.
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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.
noun
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Also called: pyx chest. the chest in which coins from the British mint are placed to be tested for weight, etc
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Christianity any receptacle in which the Eucharistic Host is kept
Etymology
Origin of pyx
1350–1400; Middle English pyxe < Latin pyxis < Greek pyxís a box, originally made of boxwood
Vocabulary lists containing pyx
Example Sentences
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Serving a less dramatic function, the Man of Sorrows becomes the thumb-sized lid handle of a beautiful pyx, a container for the consecrated host.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2011
For protection Father Theophilus, by special permission, wore a pyx containing the Blessed Sacrament.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most Namban religious art also perished, except for some rare tea bowls decorated with the cross or an occasional lacquer pyx.
From Time Magazine Archive
She lied and stole, And spat into my love’s pure pyx The rank saliva of her soul.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Once more the priest made reverence; then arising, took from out the Monstrance the pyx, and facing the group, repeated the words: "Ecce Agnus Dei."
From The Fifth of November A Romance of the Stuarts by Charles S. Bentley
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