chapel vs pyx

chapel

noun
  • A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services. 

  • A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman. 

  • A place of worship in another building or within a civil institution such as a larger church, airport, prison, monastery, school, etc.; often primarily for private prayer. 

  • A printing office. 

  • A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church. 

  • A trade union branch in printing or journalism. 

adj
  • Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel. 

verb
  • To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) to turn or make a circuit so as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing. 

pyx

noun
  • A (small) box; a casket, a coffret. 

  • A box used in a mint as a place to deposit sample coins intended to have the fineness of their metal and their weight tested before the coins are issued to the public. 

  • A small, usually round container used to hold the host (“consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist”), especially when bringing communion to the sick or others unable to attend Mass. 

verb
  • To enclose (something) in a box or other container; specifically, to place (a deceased person's body) in a coffin; to coffin, to encoffin. 

  • To deposit (sample coins) in a pyx; (by extension) to test (such coins) for the fineness of metal and weight before a mint issues them to the public. 

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