Pyx Definition

piks
noun
The container in which the consecrated wafer of the Eucharist is kept.
Webster's New World
A small container for carrying the Eucharist to the sick.
Webster's New World
A box in a mint, in which specimen coins are placed until the test for purity and weight.
Webster's New World

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

Wiktionary

(anatomy) Pyxis.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • pix chest
  • pyx chest
  • pix

Other Word Forms of Pyx

Noun

Singular:
pyx
Plural:
pyxes

Origin of Pyx

  • Middle English pyxe from Latin pyxis box from Greek puxis

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin pyxis, from late Ancient Greek πυξίς (puksis, “box").

    From Wiktionary

Pyx Sentence Examples

  • Specimens are selected from the finished coin and are put into a box or " pyx."

  • They are probably of the Norman period, and were kept in the Pyx Chapel at Westminster, now in the custody of the Commissioners of Works.

  • It was reserved in a closed vessel, which took various forms from time to time, known in the East as the aproc 6ptov, and in the West as the turris, the capsa, and later on as the pyx.

  • In the East it was kept against the wall behind the altar; in the West, in a locked aumbry in some part of the church, or (as in England and France) in a pyx made in the form of a dove and suspended over the altar.

  • From the eastern walk a porch gives entry to the chapter house and the chapel of the Pyx.

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