codify
verbUK /ˈkəʊ.dɪˌfaɪ/ · US /ˈkɑ.dɪˌfaɪ/
Etymology From code + -ify.
1
To reduce to a code, to arrange into a code.
- The company president codified the goal as a one-line mission statement.
2
To collect and arrange in a systematic form.
- 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.”1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter V, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
3
To enact as an official rule or law.
- Synonyms
- inscripturate, systematize, systematise
- Derived terms
- codifiability, codifiable, codification, codifier, decodify, geocodify, miscodify, noncodified, recodification, recodify, uncodifiable, uncodify, unicodification