1) Box or coffer 2) Chest 3) Container for the eucharist 4) Eucharist box 5) Eucharist chest 6) Eucharist receptacle 7) Eucharist vessel 8) Holder of the host 9) Holy Communion box 10) Holy Communion receptacle 11) Pix chest 12) Pyx chest 13) Sacrament vessel 14) Vessel in some rites
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1) Chest 2) Pix
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A pyx or pix (pyxis, transliteration of Greek: πυξίς, box-wood receptacle, from πυξος, box-tree) is a small round container used in the Catholic, Old Catholic and Anglican Churches to carry the consecrated host (Eucharist), to the sick or those otherwise unable to come to a church in order to receive Holy Communion. The term can also be ...
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box or vessel in which coins or consecrated Eucharist are kept
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• (n.) 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. • (n.) The box, case, vase, or tabernacle, in which the host is reserved. • (n.) The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle. • (n.) Same as Pyxis...
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in Christianity, vessel containing the consecrated bread used in the service of Holy Communion. Although pyxes were made in various shapes, such as ... [1 related articles]
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In the Roman Catholic Church, the container used for the wafers of the sacrament. The Trial of the Pyx is the test of coinage by a goldsmith, at the hall of the Goldsmiths' Company, London, and is...
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A vessel for the consecrated bread. In mediaeval English churches, a pyx hanging over the altar was used for the reserved sacrament.
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1. The box, case, vase, or tabernacle, in which the host is reserved. ... 2. 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. ... 3. The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle. ... 4. <anatomy> Same as Pyxis. Pyx cl...
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A vessel for the consecrated bread. In mediaeval English churches, a pyx hanging over the altar was used for the reserved sacrament.
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Pyx noun [ Latin
pyxis a box, Greek
pyxi`s a box, especially of boxwood, from
py`xos the box tree or boxwood. See
Box a receptacle.] [ Written also
pix .]
1. (R. C. Ch.) The box, case, vase, or tabernacle, in which the host is reserved.
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Pyx transitive verb To test as to weight and fineness, as the coins deposited in the pyx. [ Eng.]
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A small box with a lid to contain the consecrated host.
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A pyx was a covered vessel used in the Roman Catholic church to contain the consecrated host. In ancient times it was sometimes made in the shape of a dove.
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n] - a chest in which coins from the mint are held to await assay 2. [n] - any receptacle in which wafers for the Eucharist are kept
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pix chest noun a chest in which coins from the mint are held to await assay
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pix noun any receptacle in which wafers for the Eucharist are kept
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· the box or vessel in which the reserved Eucharist or Host is kept. · a watch-shaped container for carrying the Eucharist to the sick.
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