Pyx

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pɪks/
• Rhymes: -ɪks
• Homophones: picks, pix

Origin

Latin pyxis, from late Ancient Greek πυξίς ("box").

Full definition of pyx

Noun

1. the small container used to hold the consecrated bread of the Eucharist
• 1922, James Joyce, UlyssesAnd 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!
2. 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.
3. (nautical) The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle.
4. (anatomy) pyxis