pyxn.¹

Brit.

/pɪks/, U.S.

/pɪks/

Inflections: Plural pyxes, (rare) pyxs.

Forms: late Middle English–1500s pixt, late Middle English–1600s pixe, late Middle English–1600s pyxe, late Middle English–1800s pix, late Middle English– pyx, 1500s pext (English regional (Kent)), 1500s picktes, 1500s pixte, 1500s pyxk, 1500s pyxte; Scottish pre-1700 pax, pre-1700 pix, pre-1700 pixt, 1800s– pyx.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin pyxis.

Etymology: < classical Latin pyxis small box or casket, in post-classical Latin also casket for the host (10th cent.; frequently from 11th cent. in British sources), box containing sample coins for trial (frequently from 1280 in British sources), acetabulum (a1350 in a British source; 1363 in Chauliac: compare quot. ?c1425 at pyxis n. 1), mariner's compass (1622, 1675 in British sources in pyxis nautica ; compare Pyxis Nautica at pyxis n. 3b) < Hellenistic Greek πυξίς box < ancient Greek πύξος box-tree (see box n.¹) + -ίς -id suffix². With sense 2 compare slightly earlier pyxed adj. 2. Compare earlier pyxis n.With sense 4 compare box n.² 6a. Compare also pyxis n. 3a.

1. Christian Church. The vessel or box in which the consecrated bread of the Eucharist is kept. Also figurative.

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

?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 41 When þe preste passez by vs with þe pyxe [over an erasure; ?a1425 Titus Corpus Domini; Fr. contre Corpus Domini].

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1879) VII. 491 (MED) The pix [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. box; L. pixis], in whom the sacramente was contenede, brekynge the chene, did falle, whiche was a pronosticacion contrary to the victory of the kynge [sc. Stephen].

1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. cxix They tell of kynge Steuen, that..the pixte fell out of hys tabernacle, at his coronacyon.

1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) v. xxiii. 103 We kisse the Pix, we creepe the Crosse, our Beades we ouer-runne.

1605–6 Act 3 James I c. 5 §15 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.

1703 in D. D. C. P. Mould Irish Dominicans (1957) ii. 256 Ye court had fiftheene silver chalices and three Pixis.

1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 265 The pyx in which the Host is kept, is made of lapis lazuli.

1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. x. 176 If I sell the very pyx and candlesticks on the altar at Jorvaulx, I shall scarce raise the half.

1850 A. Jameson Legends Monastic Orders 286 Clara..took from the altar the pix of ivory and silver which contained the Host.

a1861 E. B. Browning Last Poems (1862) 21 She lied and stole, And spat into my love's pure pyx The rank saliva of her soul.

1903 J. H. Matthews Mass & Folklore iv. 63 A dove-shaped pyx of precious metal, suspended over the altar by a chain from the roof.

1950 Times 25 July 3/2 A late fifteenth or early sixteenth century cloth or veil used to cover the pyx or box containing the reserved Sacrement.

1994 A. Theroux Primary Colors 108 Gold is also the hue of magnificence in Western Christian civilization, where it is used in the churches on monstrances, chalices and chasubles, pyxes, altar coverings.

2. The box or chest at a mint in which specimen coins are deposited to be tested annually. Esp. in trial of the pyx n. the official trial of the composition, form, and weight of such coins, now conducted annually in the United Kingdom by a jury under the direction of the Queen's Remembrancer.In quot. a1661 used of the trial itself.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > coining > [noun] > trial of purity or weight > chest in which trial coins kept

say box1532

pyx1566

pyx box1833

pyx chest1883

society > trade and finance > money > coining > [noun] > trial of purity or weight

trial of the pyx1686

combustion of money1695

1566 (P.R.O. E101/686/43) (title of MS) The Boke of meltinge begunne after the takinge of the pyxe.

1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 44 To receiue them with an accounte, what summe had beene coyned, and also their Pix, or Boxe of assay.

1635 B. Jonson in J. Rutter Shepheards Holy-day sig. A3 For governing the pixe, A Say-master, hath studied all the tricks Of Finenesse, and alloy.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Cornw. 201 This solemn weighing by a word of art they called the Pixe.

1686 Laws & Acts made in 2nd Session First Parl. James VII 23 It is hereby Declared, That the tryal of the Pix being made, the whole Silver in the Pix is to be returned to the Master as his own, and the Say-master is to have no part of it.

1745 S. M. Leake Hist. Acct. Eng. Money (ed. 2) 105 The trial or assay of the pix was established, as a check upon the master of the mint.

1792 Ann. Reg. 1789 Chron. 230/2 Tuesday was held a trial of the pix of moneys coined, at the Mint in the Tower of London.

1808 Archæol. 16 165 The earliest notice of the pix which I have met with in any modern foreign mint is in the reign of Philip VI of France.

1870 Act 33 & 34 Victoria c. 10 §12 A trial of the pyx shall be held at least once in every year in which coins have been issued from the Mint.

1900 Times 5 July 7/3 The jurors' being [this year] called upon to examine not only the Pyx of the Mint of London, but that of the branch Mint of Perth, Western Australia, as well.

1953 Sun (Baltimore) 12 Feb. 3/1 The coins tested were picked from a ‘pyx’.

1992 Daily Tel. 14 Feb. 20/3 Goldsmiths Hall in the City was the backdrop yesterday for the annual Trial of the Pyx, a ceremony dating back to 1248 in which coins made by the Royal Mint are examined to ensure that they are the proper weight, diameter and composition.

3. More generally: a box; a casket; = pyxis n. 2b. rare.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > box > [noun]

shrinec1000

boist?c1225

busta1250

cofferc1300

coffinc1330

buist1393

boosta1400

pyx1609

pyxis1708

box1751

1609 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. (ed. 2) Pyxe, a boxe.

1648 J. Beaumont Psyche x. 156 It is not Beauty, which its Blush doth owe Unto the Pixe and Pencill.

1840 R. Browning Sordello i. 588 Some pyx to screen The full-grown pest, some lid to shut upon The goblin.

1885 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche xi. ix. 134 ‘This box,’ and in her hands she took a pyx Square-cut, of dark obsidian's rarest green, ‘Take.’

1961 J. Emmons & S. Gilbert tr. A. Parrot Arts Assyria 333 Pyx—Small round or rectangular box, with a flat bottom and a lid, holding jewellery and ornaments.

†4. A mariner's compass (see compass n.¹ 12a). Obsolete. rare.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > compass

compass?1518

dial1523

shipman's card1530

nautical compass1552

mariner's compass1594

pyx1686

pyxis1686

box and needle1753

magnetic compass1838

1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. xii. 61 I see not that Natural Knowledge requires so exact a Pyx as Navigation useth.

c1710 Bentley in T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) II. 460 Truth mix'd with error, shade with rays, Like Whiston, wanting pyx or stars, In ocean wide or sinks or strays.

†5. Anatomy. The acetabulum; = pyxis n. 1. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bony support for limbs > pelvis > [noun] > hip bone > socket

pyxisa1400

acetable1578

acetabulum1578

pyx1864

1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Pyx, (Anat.) the same as pyxis.

Compounds

C1. (In sense 1.)

pyx canopy n.

ΚΠ

1908 Athenæum 12 Sept. 21/3 A ‘sacrament-house’, which is supposed to have formerly swung as a kind of gigantic pyx-canopy over the high altar.

1969 Folklore 80 26 The piscina with pyx canopy at Stanford-in-the-Vale is supposed to have been originally a reliquary.

2004 R. Andrews Rough Guide Eng. 563 Equally unusual is a rare pyx canopy over the altar..one of only two such surviving canopies in Europe.

pyx-cloth n. a cloth used to veil the pyx.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > artefacts > cloths, carpets, cushions > cloth (general) > eucharistic cloth > [noun] > to cover the pyx

pyx-cloth1485

sacrament-cloth1535

1485 Churchwardens' Accts. St. Mary at Hill, London in J. Nichols Illustr. Antient Times Eng. (1797) 114 Item, a pyx clothe of sipers frenged with grene sylke and red,..of Mres. Sucklyng's gyfte.

1529–30 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 350 Paid for wasshyng & Starchyng of þe pix clothe ij d.

1870 D. Rock Textile Fabrics (S. Kensington Mus.) Introd. p. cxxvii To make this pyx-cloth, a piece of thick linen, about two feet square, was chosen.

1950 Times 25 July 3/2 The pyx cloth and burse are not likely to be on view until the later part of this week, when they will be shown in the Edward VII gallery.

1991 B. Gangwere Music Hist. Renaissance 430 Custode, Fr., altar-curtain; pyx-cloth; custodial (for host).

† pyx-kerchief n. Obsolete = pyx-cloth n.

ΚΠ

1877 F. G. Lee Gloss. Liturg. & Eccl. Terms 305 Pyx-cloth, a cloth of silk, satin, or cloth of gold..also called in ancient documents..‘pyx-kerchief’.

pyx-veil n. = pyx-cloth n.

ΚΠ

1877 F. G. Lee Gloss. Liturg. & Eccl. Terms 305 Pyx-cloth, a cloth of silk, satin, or cloth of gold..also called in ancient documents..‘pyx-veil’.

1891 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 423/2 If anyone tries to produce a more final combination of letters beginning with p than ‘pyx-veil’ he has our sympathy.

1910 Catholic Encycl. VIII. 730/2 A very curious specimen of linen lace of pre-Reformation times is the pyx veil now existing in the parish of Hesselt in Suffolk.

C2. (In sense 2.)

pyx box n.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > coining > [noun] > trial of purity or weight > chest in which trial coins kept

say box1532

pyx1566

pyx box1833

pyx chest1883

1833 R. Mushet in Encycl. Brit. VII. 53/1 The other piece is ensealed in a packet, and put into a box, called a pix box,..there to remain until the final trial of the pix by jury before the king.

1901 Times 11 Mar. 12/1 Thereafter the custody of the chapel remained for many years with the Chamberlains of the Exchequer, which ancient officers were required to lodge the standard plates of gold and silver in the Pyx box.

2003 Western Mail (Cardiff) (Nexis) 14 Feb. 13 It was noticed that there was one coin less after the trial than had arrived in the Pyx boxes from Wales.

pyx chest n.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > coining > [noun] > trial of purity or weight > chest in which trial coins kept

say box1532

pyx1566

pyx box1833

pyx chest1883

1883 Q. Rev. Apr. 486 The Pyx chest, containing the coins tried each year by the Goldsmiths' Company, is kept at the Mint.

1901 Daily Chron. 2 July 7/1 The Pyx chest is brought to the hall and opened in the presence of a jury of goldsmiths, who examine the coins in regard to their number, weight, and fineness.

1953 J. H. M. Craig Mint xxiii. 396 The Pyx chests were unlocked by the Mint; each bag was opened; 12 ounces troy of coins were weighed out.

pyx dinner n. a celebratory meal on the occasion of the trial of the pyx.

ΚΠ

1900 Times 5 July 7/3 The Goldsmiths' Company entertained in the evening all the officers engaged on the trial, together with the jurors and numerous other guests..at a banquet known as the ‘Pyx Dinner’.

1910 Times 8 July 4/1 Owing to the death of King Edward, the official Pyx dinner will not be given this year.

1957 S. B. Baxter Devel. Treasury Index 296/1 Trial of the Pyx dinner.

† pyx feast n. Obsolete = pyx dinner n.

ΚΠ

1697 N. Luttrell Diary 13 July in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) IV. 251 Thursday next will be the pix feast at Westminster, there being a jury of goldsmiths sworn to try all our money coyned in the Tower this last year.

1703 Acct. Proc. House of Peers 71 To Henry Seager, for the Charge of the Pix Feast..l.154.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pyx
释义	pyxn.¹ Brit. /pɪks/, U.S. /pɪks/ Inflections: Plural pyxes, (rare) pyxs. Forms: late Middle English–1500s pixt, late Middle English–1600s pixe, late Middle English–1600s pyxe, late Middle English–1800s pix, late Middle English– pyx, 1500s pext (English regional (Kent)), 1500s picktes, 1500s pixte, 1500s pyxk, 1500s pyxte; Scottish pre-1700 pax, pre-1700 pix, pre-1700 pixt, 1800s– pyx. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin pyxis. Etymology: < classical Latin pyxis small box or casket, in post-classical Latin also casket for the host (10th cent.; frequently from 11th cent. in British sources), box containing sample coins for trial (frequently from 1280 in British sources), acetabulum (a1350 in a British source; 1363 in Chauliac: compare quot. ?c1425 at pyxis n. 1), mariner's compass (1622, 1675 in British sources in pyxis nautica ; compare Pyxis Nautica at pyxis n. 3b) < Hellenistic Greek πυξίς box < ancient Greek πύξος box-tree (see box n.¹) + -ίς -id suffix². With sense 2 compare slightly earlier pyxed adj. 2. Compare earlier pyxis n.With sense 4 compare box n.² 6a. Compare also pyxis n. 3a. 1. Christian Church. The vessel or box in which the consecrated bread of the Eucharist is kept. Also figurative. 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 ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 41 When þe preste passez by vs with þe pyxe [over an erasure; ?a1425 Titus Corpus Domini; Fr. contre Corpus Domini]. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1879) VII. 491 (MED) The pix [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. box; L. pixis], in whom the sacramente was contenede, brekynge the chene, did falle, whiche was a pronosticacion contrary to the victory of the kynge [sc. Stephen]. 1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. cxix They tell of kynge Steuen, that..the pixte fell out of hys tabernacle, at his coronacyon. 1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) v. xxiii. 103 We kisse the Pix, we creepe the Crosse, our Beades we ouer-runne. 1605–6 Act 3 James I c. 5 §15 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. 1703 in D. D. C. P. Mould Irish Dominicans (1957) ii. 256 Ye court had fiftheene silver chalices and three Pixis. 1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 265 The pyx in which the Host is kept, is made of lapis lazuli. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. x. 176 If I sell the very pyx and candlesticks on the altar at Jorvaulx, I shall scarce raise the half. 1850 A. Jameson Legends Monastic Orders 286 Clara..took from the altar the pix of ivory and silver which contained the Host. a1861 E. B. Browning Last Poems (1862) 21 She lied and stole, And spat into my love's pure pyx The rank saliva of her soul. 1903 J. H. Matthews Mass & Folklore iv. 63 A dove-shaped pyx of precious metal, suspended over the altar by a chain from the roof. 1950 Times 25 July 3/2 A late fifteenth or early sixteenth century cloth or veil used to cover the pyx or box containing the reserved Sacrement. 1994 A. Theroux Primary Colors 108 Gold is also the hue of magnificence in Western Christian civilization, where it is used in the churches on monstrances, chalices and chasubles, pyxes, altar coverings. 2. The box or chest at a mint in which specimen coins are deposited to be tested annually. Esp. in trial of the pyx n. the official trial of the composition, form, and weight of such coins, now conducted annually in the United Kingdom by a jury under the direction of the Queen's Remembrancer.In quot. a1661 used of the trial itself. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > coining > [noun] > trial of purity or weight > chest in which trial coins kept say box1532 pyx1566 pyx box1833 pyx chest1883 society > trade and finance > money > coining > [noun] > trial of purity or weight trial of the pyx1686 combustion of money1695 1566 (P.R.O. E101/686/43) (title of MS) The Boke of meltinge begunne after the takinge of the pyxe. 1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 44 To receiue them with an accounte, what summe had beene coyned, and also their Pix, or Boxe of assay. 1635 B. Jonson in J. Rutter Shepheards Holy-day sig. A3 For governing the pixe, A Say-master, hath studied all the tricks Of Finenesse, and alloy. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Cornw. 201 This solemn weighing by a word of art they called the Pixe. 1686 Laws & Acts made in 2nd Session First Parl. James VII 23 It is hereby Declared, That the tryal of the Pix being made, the whole Silver in the Pix is to be returned to the Master as his own, and the Say-master is to have no part of it. 1745 S. M. Leake Hist. Acct. Eng. Money (ed. 2) 105 The trial or assay of the pix was established, as a check upon the master of the mint. 1792 Ann. Reg. 1789 Chron. 230/2 Tuesday was held a trial of the pix of moneys coined, at the Mint in the Tower of London. 1808 Archæol. 16 165 The earliest notice of the pix which I have met with in any modern foreign mint is in the reign of Philip VI of France. 1870 Act 33 & 34 Victoria c. 10 §12 A trial of the pyx shall be held at least once in every year in which coins have been issued from the Mint. 1900 Times 5 July 7/3 The jurors' being [this year] called upon to examine not only the Pyx of the Mint of London, but that of the branch Mint of Perth, Western Australia, as well. 1953 Sun (Baltimore) 12 Feb. 3/1 The coins tested were picked from a ‘pyx’. 1992 Daily Tel. 14 Feb. 20/3 Goldsmiths Hall in the City was the backdrop yesterday for the annual Trial of the Pyx, a ceremony dating back to 1248 in which coins made by the Royal Mint are examined to ensure that they are the proper weight, diameter and composition. 3. More generally: a box; a casket; = pyxis n. 2b. rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > box > [noun] shrinec1000 boist?c1225 busta1250 cofferc1300 coffinc1330 buist1393 boosta1400 pyx1609 pyxis1708 box1751 1609 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. (ed. 2) Pyxe, a boxe. 1648 J. Beaumont Psyche x. 156 It is not Beauty, which its Blush doth owe Unto the Pixe and Pencill. 1840 R. Browning Sordello i. 588 Some pyx to screen The full-grown pest, some lid to shut upon The goblin. 1885 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche xi. ix. 134 ‘This box,’ and in her hands she took a pyx Square-cut, of dark obsidian's rarest green, ‘Take.’ 1961 J. Emmons & S. Gilbert tr. A. Parrot Arts Assyria 333 Pyx—Small round or rectangular box, with a flat bottom and a lid, holding jewellery and ornaments. †4. A mariner's compass (see compass n.¹ 12a). Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > compass compass?1518 dial1523 shipman's card1530 nautical compass1552 mariner's compass1594 pyx1686 pyxis1686 box and needle1753 magnetic compass1838 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. xii. 61 I see not that Natural Knowledge requires so exact a Pyx as Navigation useth. c1710 Bentley in T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) II. 460 Truth mix'd with error, shade with rays, Like Whiston, wanting pyx or stars, In ocean wide or sinks or strays. †5. Anatomy. The acetabulum; = pyxis n. 1. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bony support for limbs > pelvis > [noun] > hip bone > socket pyxisa1400 acetable1578 acetabulum1578 pyx1864 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Pyx, (Anat.) the same as pyxis. Compounds C1. (In sense 1.) a. pyx canopy n. ΚΠ 1908 Athenæum 12 Sept. 21/3 A ‘sacrament-house’, which is supposed to have formerly swung as a kind of gigantic pyx-canopy over the high altar. 1969 Folklore 80 26 The piscina with pyx canopy at Stanford-in-the-Vale is supposed to have been originally a reliquary. 2004 R. Andrews Rough Guide Eng. 563 Equally unusual is a rare pyx canopy over the altar..one of only two such surviving canopies in Europe. b. pyx-cloth n. a cloth used to veil the pyx. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > cloths, carpets, cushions > cloth (general) > eucharistic cloth > [noun] > to cover the pyx pyx-cloth1485 sacrament-cloth1535 1485 Churchwardens' Accts. St. Mary at Hill, London in J. Nichols Illustr. Antient Times Eng. (1797) 114 Item, a pyx clothe of sipers frenged with grene sylke and red,..of Mres. Sucklyng's gyfte. 1529–30 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 350 Paid for wasshyng & Starchyng of þe pix clothe ij d. 1870 D. Rock Textile Fabrics (S. Kensington Mus.) Introd. p. cxxvii To make this pyx-cloth, a piece of thick linen, about two feet square, was chosen. 1950 Times 25 July 3/2 The pyx cloth and burse are not likely to be on view until the later part of this week, when they will be shown in the Edward VII gallery. 1991 B. Gangwere Music Hist. Renaissance 430 Custode, Fr., altar-curtain; pyx-cloth; custodial (for host). † pyx-kerchief n. Obsolete = pyx-cloth n. ΚΠ 1877 F. G. Lee Gloss. Liturg. & Eccl. Terms 305 Pyx-cloth, a cloth of silk, satin, or cloth of gold..also called in ancient documents..‘pyx-kerchief’. pyx-veil n. = pyx-cloth n. ΚΠ 1877 F. G. Lee Gloss. Liturg. & Eccl. Terms 305 Pyx-cloth, a cloth of silk, satin, or cloth of gold..also called in ancient documents..‘pyx-veil’. 1891 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 423/2 If anyone tries to produce a more final combination of letters beginning with p than ‘pyx-veil’ he has our sympathy. 1910 Catholic Encycl. VIII. 730/2 A very curious specimen of linen lace of pre-Reformation times is the pyx veil now existing in the parish of Hesselt in Suffolk. C2. (In sense 2.) a. pyx box n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > coining > [noun] > trial of purity or weight > chest in which trial coins kept say box1532 pyx1566 pyx box1833 pyx chest1883 1833 R. Mushet in Encycl. Brit. VII. 53/1 The other piece is ensealed in a packet, and put into a box, called a pix box,..there to remain until the final trial of the pix by jury before the king. 1901 Times 11 Mar. 12/1 Thereafter the custody of the chapel remained for many years with the Chamberlains of the Exchequer, which ancient officers were required to lodge the standard plates of gold and silver in the Pyx box. 2003 Western Mail (Cardiff) (Nexis) 14 Feb. 13 It was noticed that there was one coin less after the trial than had arrived in the Pyx boxes from Wales. pyx chest n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > coining > [noun] > trial of purity or weight > chest in which trial coins kept say box1532 pyx1566 pyx box1833 pyx chest1883 1883 Q. Rev. Apr. 486 The Pyx chest, containing the coins tried each year by the Goldsmiths' Company, is kept at the Mint. 1901 Daily Chron. 2 July 7/1 The Pyx chest is brought to the hall and opened in the presence of a jury of goldsmiths, who examine the coins in regard to their number, weight, and fineness. 1953 J. H. M. Craig Mint xxiii. 396 The Pyx chests were unlocked by the Mint; each bag was opened; 12 ounces troy of coins were weighed out. b. pyx dinner n. a celebratory meal on the occasion of the trial of the pyx. ΚΠ 1900 Times 5 July 7/3 The Goldsmiths' Company entertained in the evening all the officers engaged on the trial, together with the jurors and numerous other guests..at a banquet known as the ‘Pyx Dinner’. 1910 Times 8 July 4/1 Owing to the death of King Edward, the official Pyx dinner will not be given this year. 1957 S. B. Baxter Devel. Treasury Index 296/1 Trial of the Pyx dinner. † pyx feast n. Obsolete = pyx dinner n. ΚΠ 1697 N. Luttrell Diary 13 July in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) IV. 251 Thursday next will be the pix feast at Westminster, there being a jury of goldsmiths sworn to try all our money coyned in the Tower this last year. 1703 Acct. Proc. House of Peers 71 To Henry Seager, for the Charge of the Pix Feast..l.154. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Pyxn.² Brit. /pɪks/, U.S. /pɪks/ Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: pyxis n. Etymology: Shortened < pyxis n. (compare sense 3b at that entry), originally as a graphic abbreviation. Astronomy. The constellation Pyxis (pyxis n. 3b). Chiefly as postmodifier, in the designations of stars of this constellation. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > Southern constellations > [noun] > Pyxis Pyxis Nautica1774 Malus1845 the Mast1883 Pyx1922 1922 Trans. Internat. Astron. Union 1 158 The following resolutions were adopted [at the first General Assembly of the IAU]: (1) The exclusive use of the Latin names of the constellations. (2) The adoption of the three-letter abbreviations proposed by Profs. Hertzsprung and Russell for the representation of the 88 principal constellations... Pyx Pyxis. 1992 S. P. Maran Astron. & Astrophysics Encycl. 708/1 Such observations have been performed with..satellite observatories for the systems AR Lac, TY Pyx, and Algol (b Per). This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pyxv. Brit. /pɪks/, U.S. /pɪks/ Forms: see pyx n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pyx n.¹ Etymology: < pyx n.¹ With sense 2 compare earlier pyxed adj. 2, pyxing n. 2. †1. transitive. To keep or place (the consecrated bread of the Eucharist) in a pyx (pyx n.¹ 1). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > mass > celebrate mass [verb (transitive)] > preserve elements reservea1500 pyx1545 1545 J. Bale Mysterye Inyquyte P. Pantolabus f. 34 Than was yt boxed pyxed and tabernacled & so borne forth in processyon with torche lyght banner crosse candelstyck. 1546 J. Bale First Examinacyon A. Askewe D ij In al the xij. hondred yeares afore that was it neyther boxed nor pixed, honoured nor sensed unyuersallye. 1640 R. Howard Sacred Poem 50 Pixing part of that eternal bread, Which mindful of his holy penitent, He..had reserud' to this intent:..His God and maker in his weake handes bears. 2. transitive. To deposit (coins) in a pyx (pyx n.¹ 2); (hence) to test the weight, form, and composition of (coins). Usually in passive. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > coining > coin (money) [verb (transitive)] > test coin pyx1745 pound1871 1745 M. Folkes Table Eng. Silver Coins 80 He there coined the several pieces.., which by their marks were made to be pixed and examined in a regular mint. 1833 Encycl. Brit. VII. 52/2 This money..is carried to the mint office to undergo inspection, and to be pixed. 1911 Daily Northwestern (Wisconsin) 25 May 6/5 Every single coin, pyxed for every day or week, at every mint, is itemized in the report. 1973 Eng. Hist. Rev. 88 826 Stanley's heirs compounded to the extent of £1,500 for his unfinished account and presented his moneys to be pyxed in May 1572. 1992 C. E. Challis New Hist. of Royal Mint iii. 355 The commissioners set about the task of putting the Mint to rights with some determination. They..ensured that their coin was regularly pyxed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹?a1425n.²1922v.1545
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