codify
Pronunciation
  • (GA) IPA: /ˈkɑ.dɨˌfaɪ/, /ˈkoʊ.dɨˌfaɪ/
  • (RP) IPA: /ˈkəʊ.dɨˌfaɪ/
Verb

codify

  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, Robert William Chambers, chapter V, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:
      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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