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Pyx vs Pixa - What's the difference?

pyx | pixa |

As a noun pyx

is the small container used to hold the consecrated bread of the eucharist.

As a proper noun pixa is

pisa.

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)

    pixa

    Not English

    Pixa has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

    English words similar to 'pixa':

    pizza, pax, puka, paca, pica, pukka, poka, pix, pox, phoca, pika, pasha, paska, pyx, pooka, puja, pausa, pucka, paisa, pooja, pfx, paiza, physa, psha, pucca