英：[pɪks]
美：[ pɪks]
pyx如何读
pyx是什么意思
- n.圣体容器；货币检查箱
- v.放入货币检查箱；检查
pyx英英释义
- n.
- a chest in which coins from the mint are held to await assay
- any receptacle in which wafers for the Eucharist are kept
pyx词源中文解释
约在1400年，“盒子”，尤其是在教堂中使用的容器，用于存放圣饼或圣饼，源自拉丁语 pyxis，来自希腊语 pyxis “盒子木材； 盒子”（最初是由盒子木材制成的），来自 pyxos “盒子木材； 盒子树”，这是一个起源不确定的词，可能是从意大利借来的，因为这种树是当地的。
从1680年代开始在航海中使用，作为“指南针悬挂的金属盒子”。因此， Pyxis 也是南方星座的名称，由拉卡伊勒在1760年代提出（连同 Puppis， Carina 和 Vela），由古老的 Argo 的部分组成，尽管 Malus “桅杆”也长期用于此部分。
pyx词源英文解释
Middle English, from Medieval Latin pyxis, from Latin, box, from Greek, from pyxos box (shrub)
The first known use of pyx was in the 15th century
pyx 例句
1 Edward I., in 1297, presented Margaret, his fourth daughter, with a golden pyx, in which he deposited a ring, as a token of his unfailing love.
2 A German who was carrying a silver pyx and a number of boxes of cigars told us we were to go to the station, where trains would be waiting for us.
3 Every year, newly minted COINS are checked for size, weight, and composition at a Trial of the Pyx.
每年，新铸造的硬币需要通过货币检验箱来对其尺寸，重量和铸造成分进行检查。
4 She lied and stole, And spat into my love’s pure pyx The rank saliva of her soul.
5 Not merely before the symbol of redemption did he kneel; for he opened his tunic at the neck, and drew thence a small golden pyx which was there suspended.
6 They are principally upon ecclesiastical objects, missal covers, croziers, chalices, ciboria, pyx, candlesticks, crosses and tabernacles.
7 Then to please the females, he described to them the reliquaries, feretories, calices, crosiers, crosses, pyxes, monstrances, and other wonders ecclesiastical, and the goblets, hanaps, watches, clocks, chains, brooches, &c., so that their mouths watered.
8 Then tell thy mission, and her present take; Which when thou hast, set forth with pyx and cake, One in each hand, while yet thou may'st retreat.
9 Take up thy pyx; to Aphrodite go, And claim the promise of thy mighty foe; Maybe that she will grant it to thee now.
10 The most diligent search was made for beads and pyxes, censers and crucifixes; not a fragment of either could be discovered.
11 Sometimes they adroitly concealed in the pyx, alongside the holy wafer, some little idol of their own, so that they really followed their own superstitions while seemingly adoring the Host.
12 She embroidered chasubles, stoles, maniples, copes, dalmatics, mitres, banners, and veils for the chalice and the pyx.
13 In this way his letters became what they are, like coins put in the pyx, and mintage that survives the best of the goldsmiths.
14 When you leave the room, put the pyx, oil-stocks, corporal, and stole in a pan of water and boil them for ten minutes.
15 The line-oriented PYX format used by pyxie is language-independent, and tools are available for several languages.
pyxie 所使用的基于行的PYX格式是不受语言限制的，其工具适用于几种语言。
16 I told him, moreover, to send a pyx and a number of small hosts, that I might be able to reserve the Blessed Sacrament.
17 He bore in his hand the sainted pyx, and commenced to shrive the dying girl.
18 He blends piety and passion in the most mystically amorous fashion; with the cantando expressivo in D, begins some lovely music, secular in spirit, mayhap intended by its creator for reredos and pyx.
19 She has been dead these ten years, praises to the pyx!
20 Only a very small particle is to be brought in the pyx.