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Pyx vs Pax - What's the difference?

pyx | pax |

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)
  • The small container used to hold the consecrated bread of the Eucharist.
  • * 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses
  • 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!
  • 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.
  • (Mushet)
  • (nautical) The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle.
  • (Weale)
  • (anatomy) pyxis
  • See also

    * (Trial of the Pyx)

    pax

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) pax peace. See (peace).

    Noun

  • 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.
  • Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • A cry for peace or truce in children's games.
  • Etymology 2

    Abbreviation of passenger''. ''X'' is an abbreviation marker as in ''DX'', ''TX'' and ''canx .

    Noun

    (pax)
  • (informal, usually, in the plural) passenger; passengers
  • (informal, usually, in the plural, by extension, hospitality industry) guest (at an event or function)
  • Anagrams

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