Pyx vs Pax - What's the difference?
pyx | pax |
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
A painted, stamped or carved tablet with a representation of Christ or the Virgin Mary, which was kissed by the priest during the Mass ("kiss of peace") and then passed to other officiating clergy and the congregation to be kissed. See also osculatory.
(informal, usually, in the plural) passenger; passengers
(informal, usually, in the plural, by extension, hospitality industry) guest (at an event or function)
As nouns the difference between pyx and pax
is that pyx is the small container used to hold the consecrated bread of the Eucharist while pax is a painted, stamped or carved tablet with a representation of Christ or the Virgin Mary, which was kissed by the priest during the Mass ("kiss of peace") and then passed to other officiating clergy and the congregation to be kissed. See also osculatory.As an interjection pax is
a cry for peace or truce in children's games.As a proper noun Pax is
latin name given to several peacetimes in human history.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)