Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyxing
Literary usage of Pyxing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by George William Cox (1867)
"The weight and fineness of the money are also ultimately examined and insured by
the process of pyxing, ..."
2. A History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans by John Lingard (1829)
"Disputes We may now proceed to an important and per- pyxing question, on which
it was impossible for the king to decide, without giving offence to a ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... assaying the melted bars; (<•) "pyxing" the finished coin or selecting specimens
to be weighed and assayed; (/) " telling " or counting the coin. ..."
4. The International Cyclopedia: A Compendium of Human Knowledge, Rev. with by Selim Hobart Peabody, Charles Francis Richardson (1898)
"... coins that about 1 in 200 is imperfectly finished; these being rejected, the
rest are finally weighed into bags, and subjected to the process of pyxing. ..."
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