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Webster 1913 Edition
Codify
Co′di-fy
(? or ?; 277)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Codified
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Codifying
.] [
Code
+ -fy
: cf. F. codifier
.] To reduce to a code, as laws.
Definition 2024
codify
codify
English
Verb
codify (third-person singular simple present codifies, present participle codifying, simple past and past participle codified)
- To reduce to a code, to arrange into a code.
- The company president codified the goal as a one-line mission statement.
- To collect and arrange in a systematic form.
- 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter V”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:
- 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.”
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to reduce to a code