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Grammar : Verb
Spell : kod-uh-fahy, koh-duh-
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɒd əˌfaɪ, ˈkoʊ də-

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Définition of codify

Origin :
  • c.1800, from code (n.) + -fy. Related: codified; codifying; codification.
  • verb systematize
Example sentences :
  • To codify is to classify, and Bentham might be defined as a codifying animal.
  • Extract from : « The English Utilitarians, Volume I. » by Leslie Stephen
  • Then begin by stating what are our duties, and codify what is good and what is bad.
  • Extract from : « Conscience, Complete » by Hector Malot
  • That is, they refused to codify it and left it for the courts to decide.
  • Extract from : « Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama » by Walter L. Fleming
  • There is nothing finical or foppish about the conventions which Mr. Harcourt undertakes to codify and explain.
  • Extract from : « Ben's Nugget » by Horatio, Jr. Alger
  • In 1858 he was chosen by the Seventh General Assembly one of the three commissioners to revise and codify the laws of the state.
  • Extract from : « History of Linn County Iowa » by Luther A. Brewer
  • It is the illusory unity of our own personality, which leads us to unify and to codify natural phenomena and even humanity itself.
  • Extract from : « Metapsychical Phenomena » by J. Maxwell
  • Tonight I ask you to codify this into law, so people of faith can know that the law will never discriminate against them again.
  • Extract from : « Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to 2006 » by Various
  • Cromwell smiled on their first efforts, when they began to codify the laws and abolished the Court of Chancery.
  • Extract from : « A History of England » by Charles Oman
  • Hence it was possible to elaborate a consistent system of Halachah, and eventually to codify it all.
  • Extract from : « Pharisaism, Its Aim And Its Method » by R. Travers Herford
  • That sanctified bookworm was the first to codify the laws, customs, habits, and idiosyncrasies of literary men.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 » by Various

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