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Pix   /pɪks/   Listen
Pix

noun
1.
A chest in which coins from the mint are held to await assay.  Synonyms: pix chest, pyx, pyx chest.
2.
Any receptacle in which wafers for the Eucharist are kept.  Synonym: pyx.






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"Pix" Quotes from Famous Books



... were not alive then, gentle reader,) strikingly illustrative of the superstition of the times. In 1274, the church of St Gervais, in Paris, was broken into one night by some sacrilegious dog, who ran off with the golden pix, containing the consecrated wafer or host. Not thinking himself safe within the city, away he went for St Denis—got without the city walls in safety, and made off as fast as he could for the abbatial town. Before arriving there, he thought he would have a look at ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. • Various



Words linked to "Pix" :   receptacle, pix chest, chest



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