Associations to the word «Codex»

Wiktionary

CODEX, noun. An early manuscript book
CODEX, noun. A book bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll
CODEX, noun. An official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients

Dictionary definition

CODEX, noun. An official list of chemicals or medicines etc..
CODEX, noun. An unbound manuscript of some ancient classic (as distinguished from a scroll).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope