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Definition of Pyxes
1. pyx [n] - See also: pyx
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyxes
Literary usage of Pyxes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dinanderie: A History and Description of Mediæval Art Work in Copper, Brass by John Tavenor Perry (1910)
"The pyxes or ciboria were in common use until the fifteenth century, when they
were gradually ... The pyxes or custodes, as they were sometimes called, ..."
2. Sacred Archæology: A Popular Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Art and by Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott (1868)
"The larger kind, like one at St. Oiner of the twelfth century, had covers, and
often were receptacles or tabernacles for the pyxes. ..."
3. Sacred Archæology: A Popular Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Art and by Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott (1868)
"Bishop Bleys of Worcester, a century before, required two pyxes, one of those
materials or of Limoges work for the reserved Host, and the other, ..."
4. ... A Guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the Specimens of Mediaeval and by Ormonde Maddock Dalton, Charles Hercules Read (1907)
"pyxes. A pyx (der. Gr. ir |íc, a box of boxwood) was in classical times at ...
Ivory pyxes of this kind have been preserved in several Western churches, ..."
5. Proceedings of the Bury & West Suffolk Archæological Institute (1853)
"Few, if any, it is believed, of the pyxes bequeathed by Henry VII., now remain :
probably (it has been suggested) from the circumstance of having the royal ..."
6. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini (1920)
"When he perceived I was not going to bring it, he began to display real dis- 1
The word I have translated pyxes is ..."
7. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini (1910)
"... a bestial passion, and swore he would wait to see if I was so mad as not to
finish it. More than two months passed 1The word I have translated pyxes is ..."
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