Meanings of pyx in English

She has been dead these ten years, praises to the pyx!

A kitchen jack leaned against a pyx, a republican sabre on a mediaeval hackbut.

He bore in his hand the sainted pyx, and commenced to shrive the dying girl.

Heyday came into my head; this fellow flings muck beds; he must be a quartz pyx.

He held a small silver pyx on his lap which contained several pieces of the Host.

I want you about that there pyx business!

She embroidered chasubles, stoles, maniples, copes, dalmatics, mitres, banners, and veils for the chalice and the pyx.

Since the case was not imminent, he had not brought stocks or pyx-FatherJoseph's, near the Junction.

A new golden pyx will shine in the minster of Dinan if we come safely through with it.

Then you shall say mass in any case... and reserve our Lord's Body in a pyx.... Now listen to me.

Then a vast crowd of worshipers surrounded me, a priest before the altar raised the pyx and the patten in his hands.

They had plundered the altar of St. Peter's of its golden pyx and candlesticks, and had poniarded the sacristan that had them in charge.

I had brought with me in a small pyx, the Blessed Sacrament, and the next morning I gave Communion to a number of the men.

Old inventories always mention a pyx, a box or vessel of gold or silver, in which the Host was reserved for the sick and infirm.

He may have had influence upon the youth of Adam Kraft, whose great pyx in St. Lorenz's is known to everyone who has visited Germany.

See to it that the Trial of the Pyx goes rather well.