codify

English

Etymology

From code +‎ -ifyCategory:English terms suffixed with -ify#CODIFY.

Pronunciation

Verb

codify (third-person singular simple present codifies, present participle codifying, simple past and past participle codified)Category:English lemmas#CODIFYCategory:English verbs#CODIFYCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CODIFYCategory:Pages with entries#CODIFYCategory:Pages with 1 entry#CODIFY

  1. To reduce to a code, to arrange into a code.
    The company president codified the goal as a one-line mission statement.Category:English terms with usage examples#CODIFY
  2. To collect and arrange in a systematic form.
    • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter V, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
      The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth ; […]. As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “ near-aissance.”
      Category:English terms with quotations#CODIFY
  3. To enact as an official rule or law.

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