Definition of Paxes

1. pax [n] - See also: pax

Lexicographical Neighbors of Paxes

pawning off
pawnless
pawnor
pawnors
pawns
pawns off
pawnshop
pawnshops
pawpaw
pawpaws
pawprint
pawprints
paws
pawsful
pax
paxes (current term)
paxil
paxillin
paxillose
paxillus
paxis
paxite
paxiuba
paxiubas
paxwax
paxwaxes
paxywaxy
pay
pay-and-display
pay-as-you-go

Literary usage of Paxes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1904)
"NOTES ON SOME ENGLISH paxes, INCLUDING AN EXAMPLE URGENTLY FOUND IN IPSWICH.1 By NINA FRANCES LAYARD. The custom of giving the kiss of peace before the ..."

2. The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior by Robert Burton (1840)
"... S. Thomas shrine, to creep to those counterfeit and maggot-eaten reliques—had he been present at a masse, and seen such kissing of paxes, crucifixes, ..."

3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1904)
"Of to be "ferial paxes" which escaped the general grouped under certain types : those ... These may be frames, such as the paxes of New College, Oxford, ..."

4. Introduction to a Catalogue of the Early Italian Prints in the British Museum by Richard Fisher (1886)
"Christ on the Cross between the two thieves, with many ornaments of horses and other things:" and upon the remark of Vasari relating to " certain paxes of ..."

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