codex sinaiticus

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codex sinaiticus - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Sinaic \Si*na"ic\, Sinaitic \Si`na*it"ic\, a. [From Mount
     Sinai.]
     Of or pertaining to Mount Sinai; given or made at Mount
     Sinai; as, the Sinaitic law.
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     Sinaitic manuscript, a fourth century Greek manuscript of
        the part Bible, discovered at Mount Sinai (the greater
        part of it in 1859) by Tisschendorf, a German Biblical
        critic; -- called also Codex Sinaiticus.
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