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▪ I. pyx, n.|pɪks|
Also 5–7 pixe, pyxe, (5–6 pixt, 6 pixte, pyxk), 5–9 pix. See also pyxis.
[ad. L. pyxis, a. Gr. πυξίς a box, f. πύξος box-tree.
The specific senses 2 and 3 were the earliest in Eng.; the general sense ‘box’ being late and only literary. Cf. pyxis.]
1. A box; a coffer; a vase. rare.
1604R. Cawdrey Table Alph. (1613), Pyxe, a boxe. 1661Blount Glossogr. (ed. 2), Pyx (pyxis) a box, properly made of Box-tree. 1840Browning Sordello i. 588 Some pyx to screen The full-grown pest, some lid to shut upon The goblin. 1885–94R. Bridges Eros & Psyche Jan. ix, ‘This box’, and in her hands she took a pyx Square-cut, of dark obsidian's rarest green, ‘Take’.
2. Eccl. The vessel in which the host or consecrated bread of the sacrament is reserved.
c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xi. 41 When þe preste passez by vs with þe pyxe [over an erasure; Cott. MS. as wee don to Corpus domini; Fr. contre Corpus Domini]. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) VII. 491 The pix [Trevisa, box] in whom the sacramente was contenede, brekynge the chene, did falle, whiche was a pronosticacion contrary to the victory of the kynge [Stephen]. 1482Will Marg. Paston in P. Lett. III. 287 Item, I bequeth to Margery Paston..my pixt of silver with ij. silver cruettes and my massebook. 1550Bale Eng. Votaries ii. cxix, They tell of kynge Steuen, that..the pixte fell out of hys tabernacle, at his coronacyon. 1554Yatton Churchw. Acc. (Som. Rec. Soc.) 166 For tassells for y⊇ pyxk. 1589Warner Alb. Eng. v. xxii a. (1612) 115 We kisse the Pix, we creepe the Crosse, our Beades we ouerrunne. 1605–6Act 3 Jas. I, c. 5 §15 Any Altar Pix Beades Pictures or suche like Popish Reliques. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) I. 325 The pyx in which the host is kept, is made of lapis lazuli. 1850A. Jameson Leg. Monast. Ord. 286 Clara..took from the altar the pix of ivory and silver which contained the Host. 1903J. H. Matthews Mass & Folklore iv. 63 A dove-shaped pyx of precious metal, suspended over the altar by a chain from the roof.
fig.a1861Mrs. Browning Bianca xii, She lied,..And spat into my love's pure pyx The rank saliva of her soul.
3. At the Royal Mint, London, the box or chest in which specimen gold and silver coins are deposited to be tested at the trial of the pyx, i.e. the final official trial of the purity and weight of the coins, now conducted annually by a jury of the Goldsmiths' Company, under the direction of the King's Remembrancer.
1598Stowe Surv. (1603) 55 To receyue them with an account, what summe had been coyned, and also their Pix, or Boxe of Assay. a1637B. Jonson Underwoods, Misc. Poems xxii, For gouerning the pix, A say-master hath studied all the tricks Of fineness and alloy. a1661Fuller Worthies (1840) I. 311 This solemn weighing, by a word of art, they called the pix. 1745Leake Nummi Brit. Hist. (ed. 2) 105 The trial or assay of the pix was established, as a check upon the master of the mint. 1789Chron. in Ann. Reg. 230/2 Tuesday was held a trial of the pix of moneys coined at the Mint in the Tower of London. 1808R. Ruding in Archæol. XVI. 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. 1870Act 33 & 34 Vict. 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. 1871(29 June) Order in Council, To make regulations respecting the trial of the Pyx. 1900Times 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. 1901(30 Jan.) (title) Trial of the Pyx Order in Council, 1901. Ibid. §4 The coins to be set apart for the trial of the Pyx shall consist, in the case of gold coins, of one from every two thousand pieces ready for issue, instead of one from each journey weight as provided by ‘the Trial of the Pyx Order in Council, 1871’.
†4. The mariner's compass, = pyxis 3: cf. box n.2 15 a. Obs. rare.
1686Goad Celest. Bodies i. xii. 61, I see not that Natural Knowledge requires so exact a Pyx as Navigation useth. c1710Bentley in Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) II. 460 Truth mix'd with error, shade with rays, Like Whiston, wanting pyx or stars, In ocean wide or sinks or strays.
5. Anat. The acetabulum; = pyxis 2.
1864in Webster.
6. attrib. and Comb., as, in sense 2, pyx-canopy; pyx-cloth, -kerchief, -veil, a cloth used to veil the pyx; in sense 3, pyx-box, pyx-chest; pyx-dinner, -feast, an entertainment on the occasion of the trial of the pyx.
1833R. Mushet in Encycl. Brit. (ed. 7) 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. 1867Chamb. Jrnl. XXXVIII. 107 There were two hundred and sixty three pyxes or deposits of gold coin in the Mint pyx-box.
1908Athenæum 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.
1901Daily 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.
1496–7Rec. St. Mary at Hill 31 Item, a *pyx clothe for the hight auter, of Siper frenged with gold. 1876Rock Text. Fabr. 108 To make this pyx-cloth a piece of thick linen, about two feet square, was chosen.
1900Times 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’.
1697Luttrell Brief Rel. 13 July (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.
▪ II. pyx, v.|pɪks|
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To place in a pyx. a. To reserve (the host) in a pyx. b. To deposit (specimen coins) in the pyx (pyx n. 3); hence, To test (coin) by weight and assay. Hence pyxed |pɪkst| ppl. a., ˈpyxing vbl. n.
a.1546Bale First Exam. Anne Askewe D ij, In al the xij. hondred yeares afore that was it neyther boxed nor pixed, honoured nor sensed unyuersallye. 1563Foxe A. & M. x. Pref. 890/2 Christ ordeined the supper to be a taking matter:..our masse men make it a matter not of taking, but of gasing, peping, pixing, boxing [etc.].
b.1561in Rep. Comm. Roy. Mint (1849) App. 22 After that the pyxed moneys is tolde by the teller. 1833R. Mushet in Encycl. Brit. (ed. 7) VII. 52/2 This money..is carried to the mint office to undergo inspection, and to be pixed. 1866St. James' Mag. Jan. 203 The finished and perfect coins are put up in bags of a given weight, ready for the final process of pyxing. |