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noun

Pyx n. (Written also pix)

(R. C. Ch.) The box, case, vase, or tabernacle, in which the host is reserved.

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.

(Naut.) The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle.

(Anat.) Same as Pyxis.

Pyx cloth (R. C. Ch.), a veil of silk or lace covering the pyx.

Trial of the pyx, the annual testing, in the English mint, of the standard of gold and silver coins.

verb

Pyx v. t. To test as to weight and fineness, as the coins deposited in the pyx. (Eng.)

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Etymology of 'Pyx'

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"Pyx" Quotes from Famous Books

... feast of Saint David," said Gwenwyn, "and were the pyx between his hands, he must come hither ...

— The Betrothed • Sir Walter Scott

... phosphorescent lanterns flare. And twilights of the lofty aisles, Thro' silver mists and streaks of blood, Crucifixion looms cold and white; Oaths of prurient blasphemy Echo to the sequestered isles; An ivory pyx that rides the flood On which fantasms spin their light, Curse each soul's eternal enemy. Within a pool where writhing coils Shape cyphers bold and gorey thought,— Two shadowed sklayres of Doom and Set! The foam-dreams of the newly dead Ascend. To hazards that the oils Eschewed, haste ...

— Betelguese - A Trip Through Hell • Jean Louis de Esque

... book down out of the thatch And has been doubled over it all day. We should be deafened by her groans and moans Had she to work as some do, Father Hart, Get up at dawn like me, and mend and scour; Or ride abroad in the boisterous night like you, The pyx and blessed ...

— The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays • Various

... following, which he agreed was 'admirable sense,'—I certainly think the words would never have come together except in this way: I quartz pyx who fling muck beds. I long thought that no human being could say this under any circumstances. At last I happened to be reading a religious writer,—as he thought himself,—who threw aspersions on his opponents ...

— Over the Teacups • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... in a street which lay outside the graveyard to the east of a certain church, wherein the pyx that hung over the altar did not contain the sacrament of the Eucharist, he on that account did not bare his head, as he was wont always at other times to do most reverently in honour of the sacrament; and when many of his lords and nobles wondered thereat, he ...

— Henry the Sixth - A Reprint of John Blacman's Memoir with Translation and Notes • John Blacman

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