Pfx vs Pyx - What's the difference?
pfx | pyx |
The small container used to hold the consecrated bread of the Eucharist.
* 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses
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.
(nautical) The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle.
(anatomy) pyxis
As an abbreviation pfx
is prefix.As a noun pyx is
the small container used to hold the consecrated bread of the Eucharist.pyx
English
(wikipedia pyx)Noun
(es)- And at the same instant perhaps a priest round the corner is elevating it. Dringdring! And two streets off another locking it into a pyx . Dringadring! And in a ladychapel another taking housel all to his own cheek. Dringdring!
- (Mushet)
- (Weale)
