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How to pronounce codex in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms leaf-book
Type of holograph, manuscript
Type Words
Type of list, listing

Examples of codex

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Though he left this plane centuries ago, Gastrodamus's codex speaks to us still.
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Minor contradictions are due to copyist errors in the codex or the translation.
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The codex or book of medieval times allowed random access to specific passages.
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The codex, said to have been found in a cave, is really a fragment of 11 pages.
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He wrote a codex on the trivium and his student Hraban wrote one on the quadrivium.
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In Egypt a small codex was found and became known through antique dealers in Cairo.
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Legend has it the codex was created by a monk who sold his soul to the devil.
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The codex consists of 249 parchment leaves 27.3 x 37.7 cm and 55 miniatures.
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The Nowell codex is generally dated around the turn of the first millennium.
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  • An official list of chemicals or medicines etc.
  • An unbound manuscript of some ancient classic (as distinguished from a scroll)
  • A codex (Latin for block of wood, book; plural codices) is a book in the format used for modern books, with separate pages normally bound together and given a cover.
  • A codex (from the Latin caudex for "trunk of a tree" or block of wood, book; plural codices) is a book constructed of a number of sheets of paper, vellum, papyrus, or similar materials, with hand-written contents. The book is usually bound by stacking the pages and fixing one edge, and using a cover thicker than the sheets. Some codices are continuously folded like a concertina...
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  • Codex (first broadcast on 12 November 2006) is a quiz show set inside the British Museum and presented by Tony Robinson. It has been shortlisted for the gameshow Rose d'Or at the 2008 Lucerne Television Festival.
  • The Codex is a 20-episode online machinima series made by Edgeworks Entertainment and set in Bungie Studios' Halo video game universe. Along with its prequel, The Heretic, The Codex is part of the greater Codex Series. ...
  • The Codex is a 2004 novel by Douglas Preston and takes place in the Southwestern United States and Central America.
  • An early manuscript book; a book bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll; an official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients