Word Finder - pax

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A painted, stamped or carved tablet with a representation of Christ or the Virgin Mary, which was kissed by the priest during the Mass ("kiss of peace") and then passed to other officiating clergy and the congregation to be kissed. See also osculatory.

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Friendship; truce.

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to be good pax (i.e. good friends)

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The kiss of peace.

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A crucifix, a tablet with the image of Christ on the cross upon it, or a reliquary.

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A cry for peace or truce in children's games.

The ancient ritual of the Pax has become almost obsolete.

Under the Pax Romana the Cretan cities again enjoyed a large measure of prosperity, illustrated by numerous edifices still existing at the time of the Venetian occupation.

Ii have given rise to a new name for the peace, the pax Dei, or peace of God.

When the treuga Dei reached its most extended form, scarcely one-fourth of the year remained for fighting, and even then the older canons relating to the pax ecclesiae remained in force.

If file is not specified, pax reads one file for one line from standard input.

If a directory is read, pax extracts all files under the directory recursively, then generates the files.

A limit of NONE will cause pax to attempt to recover from read errors forever.

The B minor Et in terra pax is in nearly every way a contrast to the first.

Son Pax Thien was adopted in 2007 from an orphanage in Vietnam.

Angelina Jolie is very focused on her family, which now includes Maddox, 5, Pax Thien, 3, Zahara, 2, and Shiloh, 1.

She has appeared on Hannah Montana as well as dad Billy Ray's series Doc that ran on the PAX channel from 2001-2004.

The twins will be the fifth and sixth children for Jolie and Pitt, parents to Maddox age six, Pax age four, Zahara age three and soon to be two-year old Shiloh.

It is also the inspiration for the major Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) that takes place each year, allowing gamers from all the around the world to congregate to one place.

This is now covered by co-ordinates for where she adopted her children Maddox, Pax and Zahara as well as the birth places of Shiloh, Vivienne, Knox and Brad Pitt.

She has three adopted children - Maddox, Zahara and Pax - and three biological children - Shiloh, Vivienne and Knox - with Brad Pitt.

Tour operators, such as Pacific Delight Tours, Affordable Tours, and Orient Flexi Pax, among others offer a variety of such packages.

It spans the galaxy, and enforces a beneficial Pax Galactica throughout.

The two measures which were adopted by the Church to remedy these conditions - the pax ecclesiae or Dei and the treuga or treva Dei - are usually both referred to as the Truce of God, but they are distinct in character.

The pax ecclesiae is first heard of in the year 990 at three synods held in different parts of southern and central France - at Charroux, Narbonne and Puy.

Like the pax ecclesiae it found ardent champions in the regular clergy, especially in Odilo (962-1049), the fifth abbot of Cluny, and soon spread over all France.

The so-called pax romana was merely peace within an empire governed from a central authority, the constituent parts of which were held together by a network of centralized authority.

As the wealthiest of Roman provinces it had most to gain by the pax Romana, and therefore welcomed the empire, and established and maintained the most devout cult of Augustus by means of the organization known as the Koinon or Commune, a representative council, meeting in the various metropoleis.

Aristophanes, in the Pax, shows us that the belief in the change of men into stars survived in his own day in Greece.

In 1548 he took the degree of master of arts; but in the same year he found it necessary to leave England on account of the suspicions entertained of his being a conjurer; these were first excited by a piece of machinery, which, in the Pax of Aristophanes, he exhibited to the university, representing the scarabaeus flying up to Jupiter, with a man and a basket of victuals on its back.

With the opening of the Ilth century, the pax ecclesiae spread over northern France and Burgundy, and diocesan leagues began to be organized for its maintenance.

It is a pax with a very rich and delicate niello picture of the coronation of the Virgin; the composition is very full, and the work almost microscopic in minuteness; it was made in 1452.

The pax Babylonica is so assured that private individuals do not hesitate to ride in their carriage from Babylon to the coast of the Mediterranean.

Three prayers, accompanying the Pax and preliminary to communion.

Since the close of the 10th century diocesan councils in France had been busily acting as legislatures, and enacting "forms of peace" for the maintenance of God's Peace or Truce (Pax Dei or Treuga Dei).