codify
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kōˈ-dĭ-fīˌ, IPA(key): /ˈkəʊ.dɪˌfaɪ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊdɪfaɪ
- (General American, Atlantic Canada) enPR: kŏˈ-dĭ-fīˌ, kōˈ-dĭ-fīˌ, IPA(key): /ˈkɑ.dɪˌfaɪ/, [ˈkɑ.ɾɪˌfaɪ], /ˈkoʊ.dɪˌfaɪ/, [ˈkoʊ.ɾɪˌfaɪ]
Verb
[edit]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 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.”
- To enact as an official rule or law.
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[edit]reduce to a code
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