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codify, v.|ˈkəʊdɪfaɪ, ˈkɒd-|
[modern f. code + -fy, like classify, etc., prob. after F. codifier.]
1. To reduce (laws) to a code; to digest.
c1800Bentham Gen. View of Compl. Code of Laws (L.), I propose to codify this. 1858Bright Sp. Reform 10 Dec., The laws had been codified and simplified. 1867Macfarren Harmony ii. 35 Modern theorists have codified the laws of counterpoint.
absol.1837H. Martineau Soc. in Amer. (1839) I. 42 Bentham..offered..to codify for several of the United States, and also for Russia.
2. gen. To reduce to a general system; to systematize.
1873Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue §193 He proceeds on the principle of codifying the actual practice [of orthography]. 1880Jefferies Hodge & M. II. 205 The grumbles, the complaints and so forth, had never been codified.
Hence ˈcodified ppl. a., ˈcodifying vbl. n.
1861Pearson Early & Mid. Ages Eng. I. xxxiii. 570 The feeling of the times was against the codifying of customs. 1876J. Parker Paracl. i. v. 56 There are codified lives that can move only as the book permits. |