codify

From code +‎ -ify.

• (General American) enPR: kŏdˈ -ĭ-fīˌ, kōˈ -dĭ-fīˌ, IPA^(key): /ˈ kɑd.ɪˌfaɪ/, /ˈ koʊ.dɪˌfaɪ/
  • Rhymes: -ɑdɪfaɪ, -oʊdɪfaɪ
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kōˈ -dĭ-fīˌ, IPA^(key): /ˈ kəʊ.dɪˌfaɪ/

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  • Rhymes: -əʊdɪfaɪ

codify (third-person singular simple present codifies, present participle codifying, simple past and past participle codified)

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.
   • 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.”

3. To enact as an official rule or law.

• inscripturate
• systematize
• systematise

• code
• codex