Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A container in which wafers for the Eucharist are kept.
- noun A container in which the Eucharist is carried to the sick.
- noun A chest in a mint in which specimen coins are placed to await assay.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To test by weight and assay, as the coins deposited in the pyx at the British mint. See
trial of the pyx , above. - noun In the Roman Catholic Church, the vase or vessel in which the reserved eucharist is kept.
- noun A box or chest in which specimen coins are deposited at the British mint.
- noun Nautical, the metallic box in which the nautical compass-card is suspended.
- noun In anatomy, the acetabulum of the hip-bone; the cotyloid cavity; the pyxis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb engraving To test as to weight and fineness, as the coins deposited in the pyx.
- noun (R. C. Ch.) The box, case, vase, or tabernacle, in which the host is reserved.
- noun 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.
- noun (Naut.) The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle.
- noun (Anat.) Same as
Pyxis . - noun (R. C. Ch.) a veil of silk or lace covering the pyx.
- noun the annual testing, in the English mint, of the standard of gold and silver coins.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the small
container used to hold the consecrated bread of theEucharist
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any receptacle in which wafers for the Eucharist are kept
- noun a chest in which coins from the mint are held to await assay
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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In later times however it has come about that the term pyx is limited in ordinary usage to that smaller vessel of gold, or silver-gilt, in which the Eucharist is commonly carried to the sick.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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One extant mediaeval example of the pyx cloth that covered the pyx is to be found, coming from the Hessett Church in Suffolk, England:
The Hanging Pyx 2009
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The hanging pyx is a suspended form of tabernacle, or place of reservation in other words, for the Blessed Sacrament.
The Hanging Pyx 2009
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The word pyx (Lat., pyxis, which transliterates the Greek, pyxis, box-wood receptacle, from pyxos, box-tree) was formerly applied in a wide and general sense to all vessels used to contain the Blessed
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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From the resemblance in size and shape the word pyx is also used to denote the small silver vessel or custode in which the Sacred
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Personally, I thought it was sort of amazing that anyone twelve years old would know that a pyx is a container for the Host during communion.
VANISHING ACTS JODI PICOULT 2005
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Personally, I thought it was sort of amazing that anyone twelve years old would know that a pyx is a container for the Host during communion.
Vanishing Acts Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2005
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Personally, I thought it was sort of amazing that anyone twelve years old would know that a pyx is a container for the Host during communion.
VANISHING ACTS JODI PICOULT 2005
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Personally, I thought it was sort of amazing that anyone twelve years old would know that a pyx is a container for the Host during communion.
VANISHING ACTS JODI PICOULT 2005
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A pyx is the vessel, usually boxlike, which holds the consecrated Eucharist.
A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975
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