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Codex : (noun)
1: an official list of chemicals or medicines etc.
2: an unbound manuscript of some ancient classic (as
distinguished from a scroll) [syn: leaf-book]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Codex : \Co"dex\, n.; pl. Codices. [L. See Code.]
1. A book; a manuscript.
2. A collection or digest of laws; a code. --Burrill.
3. An ancient manuscript of the Sacred Scriptures, or any
part of them, particularly the New Testament.
4. A collection of canons. --Shipley.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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CODEX. Literally, a volume or roll. It is particularly applied to the volume
of the civil law, collected by the emperor Justinian, from all pleas and
answers of the ancient lawyers, which were in loose scrolls or sheets of
parchment. These he compiled into a book which goes by the name of Codex.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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