Associations to the word «Pyx»
Noun
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Wiktionary
PYX, noun. The small container used to hold the consecrated bread of the Eucharist.
PYX, 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.
PYX, noun. (nautical) The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle.
PYX, noun. (anatomy) pyxis
Dictionary definition
PYX, noun. A chest in which coins from the mint are held to await assay.
PYX, noun. Any receptacle in which wafers for the Eucharist are kept.
Wise words
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at
least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are
nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to
build something with them; they do not win their true
meaning until one knows how to apply them.