paxbredn.
/ˈpaksbrɛd/, U.S. /ˈpæksˌbrɛd/ Christian Church. Now historical.
= pax n.1 1.
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1350 in H. T. Riley Memorials London (1868) 263 (MED) [One] paxbred [covered with a silver plate, with a gilded image on it of the Holy Trinity].
1395 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 5 I bequethe a chales and a paxbred.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 388 Pax brede, osculatorium.
a1449 in J. Stratford Bedford Inventories (1993) 220 Primo, a tablet of gold like a paxbrede, of þe salutacion of Owre Lady.
1472 in Wiltshire Archæol. & Nat. Hist. Mag. (1869) 11 337 Item. A pakisbrede of silver and gilte wth an ymage of our Lady standing in a sunne, weyng iiii vuncez and halfe a quarter. Item. A pakisbrede of yvere wth a ymage of our lorde as he swette blode.
?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 756/14 Osculatorium, a paxbrede.
1510 in Sussex Archæol. Coll. (1898) 41 27 iij paxbredds.
1676 W. Dugdale Baronage of Eng. III. 208/2 A Paxbrede of Ivory, with an image of our Lord. as he swet blood and water.
1881 Academy 16 Apr. 284 A ‘paxbrede’ representing the crucifix with Mary and John.
1915 A. Plummer Crit. & Exegetical Comm. Second Epist. St. Paul to Corinthians 382 The substitution of a ‘pax-bred’ (pax-board), which was kissed first by the clergy and then passed round to the congregation, is said to have been introduced in England by Archbishop Walter of York in 1250 and to have spread to other Churches.
2001 Spectator (Nexis) 18 Aug. 12 In the Middle Ages the nouns peace, or pax, or paxbred, were used to refer to the silver or wooden or wax disc that was passed around during Mass.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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