codify

To reduce to a code, to arrange into a code.

Verb

  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...
  3. To enact as an official rule or law.

Origin

Etymology tree English code Latin -i- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-fakāō Latin -ficō Latin -ificāreder. Old French -ifierbor. Middle English -ifien English -ify English codify From code + -ify.

Forms

codifies codifying codified

Synonyms

inscripturate systematize systematise

Related

code codex

Derived

codifiability codifiable codification codifier decodify geocodify miscodify noncodified recodification recodify uncodifiable uncodify unicodification