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Pyx vs Pyn - What's the difference?

pyx | pyn |

As nouns the difference between pyx and pyn

is that pyx is the small container used to hold the consecrated bread of the eucharist while pyn is (mood).

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)

    pyn

    English

    Noun

  • (mood).
  • * 1533, R. Saltwood:
    • As plesaunt to the ere as the blacke sanctus Of a sad sorte vpon a mery pyn .
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