codeine (kodein)

[ codex (kō'deks), n.; pl. codices (-di-sēz). [= D. G. codex = Dan. kodex = F. codex (in sense 1083 3) = Sp. códice = Pg. codice, codex, = It. codico, now codice, codling codification (kodi-fi-kā'shon), n. [F. codifi cation; as codify + -ation.] The act or proce of reducing to a code or system; especially, in law, the reducing of unwritten or case law to statutory form. Science is but the codification of experience, and it is helple without the data which experience furnishes. J. Fiske, N. A. Rev., CXXVI. 37. Both those who affirm and those who deny the expe- diency of codifying the English law, visibly speak of Codi- fication in two different senses. In the first place, they employ the word as synonymous with the conversion of Unwritten into Written Law. Codification is, however, plainly used in another sense, flowing from the a ociation of the word with the great experiment of Just in i an, to give orderly arrangement to this written law-to de- liver it from obscurity, uncertainty, and inconsistency - to clear it of irrelevancies and unnece ary repetitions- to reduce its bulk, to popularize its study, and to facilitate its application. Maine , Village Communities, p. 362. codifier (kod'i-fi-ér), n. One who codifies or re- patriarchate of Alexandria in 1998, and presented by Cyril Lucar, of that see and afterward of Constantinople, to Charles I. of England in 1628, and now in the British Mu- seum; the Codex Guelferbytanus , or Wolfenbüttel frag- ments , of the fifth or sixth century, recovered from a pa- limpsest of Isidore of Seville; the Codex Claro montan us , or Clermont manuscript of St. Paul's epistles, now in Paris, a palimpsest of the sixth century, written over the Phaethon of Euripi des, etc. The most important manu- script of the Vulgate is the Codex Am i at in us . The copy of the Gothic Bible known as the Codex Argenteus (silver duces to a code or digest. manuscript) from its silver letters (initials and names in gold), formerly at Werden in Westphalia, now at Upsala in Sweden, is noted both for this peculiarity and as being the most important of the few extant remains of the Gothic language. Among secular books, one of the most celebrated is the Codex Ambrosian us of the Iliad, containing 58 pictures, of all existing manuscript ill us trations retaining most of the character of good antique art. Till the 8th century, when it fell altogether into disuse, the Estrangelo continued to be employed for uncial manuscripts and ornate codices . Isaac Taylor , The Alphabet, I. 287. 3. A collection of approved medical formulas, with the proce es nece ary for forming the Even the legendary account represents William, not as an innovator, but as the codifier of the laws of Edward. E. A. Freeman , Hist. Norman Conquest, V. 267. codify (kod'i-fi), v. t.; pret. and pp. codified, ppr. codifying. [F. codifier; as code + -fy. The words codify and codification were first used by Jeremy Bentham.] 1. To reduce to a code or dige digest, as laws. These laws were no doubt in general agreement with the Canon Law: and at length the later of them were cod i fied in close imitation of the Decretals. R. W. Dizon , Hist. Church of Eng., xix. The scholastic philosophy was an attempt to codify all compounds referred to in it: as, the French existing knowledge under laws or for mule analogous to codex. codfish (kod'fish), n. [ tion in the United States of persons who make a vulgar display of rapidly or recently acquired wealth (as if it were the result of dealing in codfish). codfish-ball, codfish-cake (kod'fish-bal, -kāk), n. See fish - cake . cod-fisher (kod' fish"ėr), n. 1. A person em- ployed in fishing for cod.-2. A ve el used in this busine . cod-fishery (kod'fish"èr-i), n. 1. The busine or operation of fishing for cod.-2. A place where fishing for cod is carried on. codger (kojʻer), n . [Prob. a var. of cadgerl , q. v. For change of vowel, cf. bodger2 for badger3 , coddle with dial. caddle .] 1. A mean, miser- ly man.-2. An old fellow; an odd person; a character: usually with old : as, a rum old codger. [Slang.] He's a rum codger , you must know; At least we poor folk think him so. W. Combe, Dr. Syntax, iii. 1. A few of us old codgers meet at the fireside. Emerson, Harper's Mag., LXV. 584. 3. A fellow; a chap: a familiar term of addre , used in a slighting way. [Slang.] That's what they'll do with you, my little codger . D. Jerrold. I haven't been drinking your health, my codger. Dickens, Nicholas Nickle by, lx.