codex / ˈkoʊ dɛks /

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codex 的定义

n. 名词 noun

plural co·di·ces [koh-duh-seez, kod-uh-]. /ˈkoʊ dəˌsiz, ˈkɒd ə-/.

  1. a quire of manuscript pages held together by stitching: the earliest form of book, replacing the scrolls and wax tablets of earlier times.
  2. a manuscript volume, usually of an ancient classic or the Scriptures.
  3. Archaic. a code; book of statutes.

codex 近义词

codex

等同于 book

codex

等同于 code

更多codex例句

  1. A 50-page codex of colorful, complex pictograms that dates to the early 16th century includes the most complete — and one of the oldest — written chronologies of early earthquakes in the Americas.
  2. Other codices may contain more clues, the researchers say, which could help create a more complete chronology of the quakes that shook this ancient world.
  3. The codex worked a revolution in human communication, and the human understanding of the text was never the same.
  4. Absent the codex, ideas would still be the province of a privileged priesthood.
  5. The Madrid Library possesses a codex written in the latter part of the 15th century, containing the seventeen books.
  6. This is the principal codex existing in the Imperial Library, and was written in the 12th century.
  7. This codex contains the first nine books; the second part, containing the last eight, is lost.
  8. This pyramid was completed in 1467, but, according to the Codex Chimalpopoca, fell as soon as finished.
  9. A second edition of the Codex juris, “revised and improved, with large additions by the author,” was published at Oxford in 1761.