Pyx vs Pox - What's the difference?
pyx | pox |
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
(pathology) A disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pockmarks.
Syphilis.
guava
As nouns the difference between pyx and pox
is that pyx is the small container used to hold the consecrated bread of the eucharist while pox is (pathology) a disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pockmarks.As a verb pox is
(dated) to infect with the pox, or syphilis.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)