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Meaning of codexes | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Examples

“Only eleven codexes form the division that is intitled CHRISTIAN I.”
“To discover and possess Greek codexes then became the ambition of every cultured person”
“The great body of Old English poetry is preserved in three volumes, or codexes, of miscellaneous content”
“Sarima drew her robes about her, and traced a pattern in the cold dust on a nearby stack of codexes.”
“We're still learning about this cache of codexes, and one thing we've learned is that they aren't all "Gnostic" in character.”
“But by the time we reach that telescope and the imaginative gallery it introduces, we have seen things even more remarkable: ornately decorated quadrants of enameled brass, metal calipers, arcane charts, minutely inscribed maps, spheres within spheres like compass roses from other worlds, codexes and manuscripts, cylinders, dials, rings, rods and boxes.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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