单词 | codification |
释义 | codificationn. 1. The action or practice of reducing laws or rules to a code, or organizing them into a systematic collection; an instance of this.In early use chiefly in the writings of Jeremy Bentham. ΘΚΠ society > law > legislation > [noun] > codification codification1806 1806 J. Bentham Let. 20–22 Aug. in Corr. (1988) VII. 366 You may remember, or not remember, the flaming-ness of his zeal for preaching Codification. 1840 J. S. Mill Bentham in Diss. & Disc. (1859) I. 373 He [sc. Bentham] demonstrated the necessity and practicability of codification, or the conversion of all law into a written and systematically arranged code. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §10. 570 Bills were laid before the House for the codification of the law. 1954 Classical Jrnl. 49 273/1 The law of the Twelve Tables is the earliest codification of Roman Law known to us. 1986 N. de Lange Judaism (1991) i. 13 The rabbis undertook the codification of Jewish law..and embodied their discussions and decisions in the Talmudic literature. 2017 Virginia Law Rev. 103 1875 This codification limits the power of both the judiciary and the legislature. 2. The action of systematizing ideas, principles, procedures, etc.; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > [noun] > putting in order > giving orderly structure to something > systematizing systematizing1752 systemizing1772 systematization1817 codifying1825 systemization1828 codification1848 adjustment1881 1848 J. S. Boone One, Manifold ii. 36 The system of one manifold, requires, in addition to the universal classification of things, an universal digest, collation, and codification of things. 1874 G. H. Lewes in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 695 (Lagrange & Hegel) At the best it is but a Method of codification, and its merits must be estimated by its success in codifying the results reached by Science. 1878 J. Fiske in N. Amer. Rev. 126 37 Science is but the codification of experience. 1950 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 15 141/1 The codification of theory and research is a commendable goal,..but it will ultimately have to involve sociology itself rather than meta-sociology. 1971 L. Mirsky Transversal Theory Pref. p. v The pages that follow represent a first attempt to provide a codification of this new subject. 2019 Hindustan Times (Lucknow) (Nexis) 18 Aug. Panini is credited with the codification of Sanskrit grammar. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1806 |
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