- Ecclesiastical.
- A small flat tablet adorned with a sacred image that worshippers kiss when offered the kiss of peace.
- The kiss of peace.
- Pax A time of wide-ranging stability when there is only a single dominant power. Used with a Latinized name: “Editorials lauding the civilizing influence of Pax Britannica were met with … a crushing disinterest from most of the public” (Nisid Hajari).
[Medieval Latin pāx, from Latin, peace. Sense 2, on the model of Late Latin pāx (Rōmāna), the Roman peace, state of security obtaining under Roman rule, alteration of Latin (Rōmāna) pāx.]






