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pyx Tweet Definition of pyx Like Definition of pyx on Facebook
noun 
  1. the small container used to hold the consecrated bread of the Eucharist
  • 1922: And at the same instant perhaps a priest round the corner is elevating it. Dringdring! And two streets off another locking it into a . Dringadring! And in a ladychapel another taking housel all to his own cheek. Dringdring! " James Joyce, Ulysses
Etymology: Latin pyxis, from late Greek "box".

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