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Definition of Codex
1. Noun. An official list of chemicals or medicines etc..
2. Noun. An unbound manuscript of some ancient classic (as distinguished from a scroll).
Definition of Codex
1. n. A book; a manuscript.
Definition of Codex
1. Noun. an early manuscript book ¹
2. Noun. a book bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll ¹
3. Noun. an official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Codex
1. an ancient manuscript [n -DICES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Codex
Literary usage of Codex
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Religion and Ethics by Shailer Mathews, Gerald Birney Smith (1921)
"L=OW Latin:—Weingarten codex of Prophets, 5th. cent.; codex Monacensis, Munich,
5lh. and 6th. cent.; Palimpsest of Genesis and hist, books, Vienna; ..."
2. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1852)
"It agrees with the Constantinopolitan recension. 178. The codex ... The codex
701., formerly belonging to the friars- preachers of Saint Mark, ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"He found only a scrap of the codex, containing a few verses of Gen. xxiii.
as a book-mark in a codex of a history of the saints. ..."
4. Journal of Theological Studies by Oxford Journals (Oxford University Press) (1906)
"NOTES AND STUDIES THE codex OF THE PASCHAL CHRONICLE USED BY HOLSTEIN. To the
issue of this JOURNAL for Jan. 1901, vol. ii No. 6, I contributed a note on ..."
5. Proceedings by International Congress of Americanists (1905)
"Their number and denomination is as follows, viz: (i) The Vienna codex; (2) the
Seden ... It is true that this sign is used in a codex of undoubted Nahua ..."
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