NOUN
- a chest in which coins from the mint are held to await assay
- any receptacle in which wafers for the Eucharist are kept
How To Use pyx In A Sentence
- Dodwell pyxis of 650 to 620 B.C., a man wears an oval shield, covering him from the base of the neck to the ankles. Homer and His Age
- Similarly, the consecrated host was to be kept in a fitting manner, in a pyx, a small box made of silver or ivory which could be locked.
- Scientists are now predicting that the end will come when T Pyxidis, a supernova, explodes. Mainstream Baptist
- Vaphio cups, found in a _tholos_ chamber-tomb near Amyclae, the men are "long-haired Achaeans," with heavy, pendent locks, like the man on a pyxis from Knossos, published by Mr. Evans; they are of another period than the close-cropped men of the vase and dagger. Homer and His Age
- A supernova within 100 light-years of the Earth would likely be a catastrophic event for our planet, but something as far out as T Pyxidis may or may not damage the Earth. Could A Faraway Supernova Threaten Earth? | Universe Today
- In country churches in Oxfordshire there were silver chalices and patens, pyxes, censers, candlesticks, chrismatories, crosses, sanctus bells, and other articles of plate. English Villages
- Edhttk01: * gives you a big hug goodnight* nite my pyxie. yesterday he called and woke me up from a dream which involved him. he was very angry, yelling that he didn't love me anymore; thusly i should leave him alone forever. then at that point the phone rings. he thanked me for the vampire hunter d soundtracks, called me his pyxie twice, and had he been within my range, i would have thrown something sharp (i.e. a knife) into something vulnerable (i.e. his chest). Pyxopotamus Diary Entry
- As with all of the syntaxes discussed in this article, the creator of PYX also released tools to convert PYX to and from XML.
- The top being unzipped, several items tumbled out, a couple of shirts and the pyx and the violet stole amongst them. CONFESSIONAL
- Your line of credit business may be a distributional pyxie or a twofold tubman patriarchy or semiweekly an nobelist haemal in stanhope. Rational Review