| 单词 | altar pyx |
| 释义 | > as lemmasaltar pyx altar pyx n. a box in which the consecrated bread of the Eucharist is kept on the altar (cf. pyx n.1 1). ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > implement (general) > vessel (general) > pyx > [noun] boxc1325 pyx?a1425 sacrament-boxc1440 custode1510 Eucharist1535 pyxis1536 little Jack1566 altar pyx1605 chrismal1845 Eucharistial1845 custodial1861 1605–6 Act 3 Jas. I c. 5 §15 in Statutes of Realm (1819) IV. ii. 1082 Any Altar Pix Beades Pictures or suche like Popish Reliques. 1681 J. Oldham Satyrs upon Jesuits 84 Yon Altar-Pix of Gold is the Abode And safe Repository of their God. 1888 W. Scott tr. C. Boito Basilica S. Mark ii. viii. 248 The first place among the architectural works,..is held by the Altar-pyxes, invariably formed of four monolith arcades. 1990 D. Easterman Brotherhood of Tomb iv. 42 Above the altar pyx, someone had scrawled a message in large black letters. < as lemmas |
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