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pax

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The pax was an object used in the Middle Ages and Renaissance for the Kiss of Peace in the Catholic Mass . Direct kissing among the celebrants and congregation was replaced by each in turn kissing the pax, which was carried around those present. The form ...

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n. (Roman Catholic Church) a greeting signifying Christian love for those assisting at the Eucharist [syn: kiss of peace ]

Usage examples of pax.

I am a fully qualified Adjutor, authorized to sit at Supreme Council meetings and to advise the government on any and all matters dealing with the financial and economic well-being of the Pax, or of any group, sub-group, world, nationia, district, or sub-district within it.

The plan had been to avoid any Aenean, Pax, or Ouster worlds or strongholds found along their long voyage away from human space.

Pax or Ouster or Aenean elements without considering that we would meet up with humansor former humanssome eight thousand light-years outside the known sphere of human space.

Bin Ria Dem Loa Alem will be entitled to full medical care at the Pax base at Bombasino.

Ces Ambre, presumed killed in the Pax Base Bombasine massacre of Spectrum Helix civilians, had actually been shipped offworld with more than a thousand other children and young adults.

Nemes, Scylla, and Briareus move south on foot from the Pax Enclave at the Phallus of Shiva.

There had been rumors for the past four years centering on Pax Fleet forces chasing some heretic who had managed to activate the dormant farcasters.

With its population of one and a half billion souls, all born-again Christians carrying the cruciform, most employed by the Vatican or the huge civilian, military, or mercantile bureaucracy of the Pax state, the planet Pacem paused to listen with some interest.

Or had, before the Pax introduced the cruciform and physical resurrection to humanity.

People traveled between worlds in the Pax -- millionaires mostly, businesspeople and adventurers willing to spend months in cryogenic sleep and years of time-debt traveling by Mercantilus transport between the stars, smug in their cruciform certainty that job and home and family would be waiting in their steady-state Christian universe when they returned -- but it was rare, and no one traveled between worlds without money and Pax permission.

In a Pax universe where the vast majority of individuals chose the cruciform -- chose to attempt to be immortal -- birth control was a given.

Sol, Luna, Tellus, Neptunus, Orcus, Proserpina, in part of moral and social qualities and states, such as Febris, Salus, Mens, Spes, Pudicitia, Pietas, Fides, Concordia, Virtus, Bellona, Victoria, Pax, Libertas, and others.

Adding the name of a local city to our own had been the tradition of most indigenie families -- for my family was indeed indigenie, descended from those first seedship pioneers almost seven centuries earlier, third-class citizens on our own world: third now after the Pax offworlders and the Hegira colonists who came centuries after my ancestors.

De Soya must convince the garrison commander -- Pax Major Leem -- that an expedition has to be mounted.

Meanwhile, the lox was being steadily devalued, there was open hostility between the Jovians and Pax vessels which arrived at Callisto Station, and the aresians were complaining of being treated like poor cousins.