codify
verb (used with object)
to compile (laws, rules, etc.) into an orderly, formal code.
codifier
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a word derived from
codify.
Example Sentences
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"The hustling, breezy type of American go-getter will find his style rather cramped in Central and South America," adds the codifier of these fashions, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce at Washington.
From Time Magazine Archive
Baldrige is the first social codifier to deal at length with the new and complex relations between men and the growing numbers of women arriving in middle-and top-management jobs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many a codifier of our day has been indebted, directly or indirectly, to these labors of Jeremy Bentham, to an extent of which he was perhaps not aware.
From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Henry B. Stanton
Philosophic criticism has not yet reached the point at which it may serve as a natural codifier.
From The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske
He was not only a collector and a codifier of the laws; he also introduced in many directions the most fundamental changes into the substantive law itself.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
