From the resemblance in size and shape the word pyx is also used to denote the small silver vessel or custode in which the Sacred. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
At some point you might hear reference to the "hanging pyx.". From Wordnik.com. [The Hanging Pyx] Reference
(Image by Lawrence Lew, OP) You can see the tassled pyx cloth. From Wordnik.com. [The Hanging Pyx] Reference
Frequent Variant Spellings: lenghth, poeple, satisficed; pix (pyx). From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the same, by Henry Bullinger] Reference
He bore in his hand the sainted pyx, and commenced to shrive the dying girl. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
They gave me a wonderful book (The Stripping of the Altars) and pyx and green stole. From Wordnik.com. [trinityboy Diary Entry] Reference
As well, above the pyx, King mentions that a circular tent-like canopy was also suspended. From Wordnik.com. [The Hanging Pyx] Reference
A gothic revival triple crown pyx, found in Grosvenor Chapel in Mayfair, London, by Sir Ninian Comper. From Wordnik.com. [The Hanging Pyx] Reference
Huge green skull leering at drivers from a billboard on Sunset, hooded, holding a pyx, bony fingers beckoning. From Wordnik.com. [Less Than Zero]
Jules, did you send the six chandeliers and the plated pyx and the Stations of the Cross, Number Two, to the. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The dove pyx which Archdale King suggests were most commonly found in France, but not so much England or Scotland. From Wordnik.com. [The Hanging Pyx] Reference
Meantime I will place the relic in the pyx of our Lady's altar, and mark the day in our calendar for perpetual remembrance. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
It contains many interesting sculptures and paintings, besides one especially fine silver pyx, the work of Juan de Arphe, dating from 1571. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
And two streets off another locking it into a pyx. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
Yet another found nought within her pyx save cinders. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference
To: pyx well, katie would be in her liberal best dream. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Host was desecrated, and the pyx and ciborium carried away. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
The figure might have served as a pyx or as a small tabernacle. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
If I sell the very pyx and candlesticks on the altar at Jorvaulx. From Wordnik.com. [Ivanhoe] Reference
Body of the Lord once more in the hanging pyx and lit the lamp before it. From Wordnik.com. [By What Authority?] Reference
Since the case was not imminent, he had not brought stocks or pyx -- Father. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the World] Reference
Instead, the use of a hanging pyx in the form of a dove was used, which was hung from the ciborium. From Wordnik.com. [New Liturgical Movement] Reference
In this way his letters became what they are, like coins put in the pyx, and mintage that survives the best of the goldsmiths. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman] Reference
All I could see was the glimmer on the altar of the great candle-sticks, the sacred pyx in its shrine, the chalice, and the book. From Wordnik.com. [A Beleaguered City Being a Narrative of Certain Recent Events in the City of Semur, in the Department of the Haute Bourgogne. A Story of the Seen and the Unseen] Reference
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