Pl. codices. [a. L. cōdex, later spelling of caudex trunk of a tree, wooden tablet, book, code of laws.]

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  † 1.  = CODE sb.1 1, 2. Obs.

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1581.  Mulcaster, Positions, xl. (1887), 228. In the fourth booke of Iustinians new Codex, the thirtenth title.

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1622.  Fletcher, Sp. Curate, IV. vii. The codexes o’ th’ law.

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1659.  Gentl. Call., iv. § 24. 408. The whole codex of Christian precepts.

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1753.  Scots Mag., XV. Sept., 460/1. A new codex, or body of the laws.

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  2.  A manuscript volume: e.g., one of the ancient manuscripts of the Scriptures (as the Codex Sinaiticus, Alexandrinus, Vaticanus, etc.), or of the ancient classics.

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1845.  M. Stuart, O. T. Canon, viii. (1849), 185. Account for the speedy loss or destruction of most codices once in circulation.

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1875.  Scrivener, Lect. Text N. Test., 26. Tischendorf’s great discovery, the Codex Sinaiticus. Ibid., 59. The characters in Codex B are somewhat less in size than those of Codex A.

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  3.  ‘In medicine, a collection of receipts for the preparation of drugs’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.); spec. the French Pharmacopæia.

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