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pyx

  [piks]
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–noun
1. Ecclesiastical.
a. the box or vessel in which the reserved Eucharist or Host is kept.
b. a watch-shaped container for carrying the Eucharist to the sick.
2. Also called pyx chest. a box or chest at a mint, in which specimen coins are deposited and reserved for trial by weight and assay.
Also, pix.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME pyxe < L pyxis < Gk pyxís a box, orig. made of boxwood
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Pyxes
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pyx also pix   (pĭks)   
n.  

  1. Ecclesiastical

    1. A container in which wafers for the Eucharist are kept.

    2. A container in which the Eucharist is carried to the sick.

  2. A chest in a mint in which specimen coins are placed to await assay.


[Middle English pyxe, from Latin pyxis, box, from Greek puxis.]
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pyx 
c.1400, "a box," esp. the vessel in which the host or consecrated bread is preserved, from L. pyxis, from Gk. pyxis "box," from pyxos "box-tree," of uncertain origin.
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