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单词 codify
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codifyv.

Brit. /ˈkəʊdᵻfʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈkɑdəˌfaɪ/, /ˈkoʊdəˌfaɪ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: code n., -ify suffix.
Etymology: < code n. + -ify suffix. Compare earlier codification n.Compare French codifier (1831).
1. transitive. To reduce (laws or rules) to a code; to digest or organize (laws or rules) into a systematic collection. Also (and in earliest use) occasionally intransitive.In early use often in or with reference to the writings of Jeremy Bentham.
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society > law > written law > [verb (transitive)] > reduce to or insert in a code
code1815
codify1816
1816 J. Bentham Let. 23 Feb. in Corr. (1988) VIII. 510 I told him of my wish to codify for the U.SS any of them.
1825 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 414 Whether it is expedient that the governors of the states should accept the proposals..to codify their law.
1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. (1839) I. 42 Bentham..offered..to codify for several of the United States, and also for Russia.
1859 J. Bright Speeches 30 The laws had been codified and simplified.
1867 G. A. Macfarren Six Lect. Harmony ii. 35 Modern theorists have codified the laws of counterpoint.
1945 Hearings before Comm. Immigration & Naturalization (76th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives) 1 A bill to revise and codify the nationality laws of the United States into a comprehensive nationality code.
2003 J. Stevenson in D. Adebayo et al. New Writing 12 177 In the Sanskrit law, codified three thousand years ago.., there was a legal sanction available to the aggrieved, called ‘sitting dharna’.
2. transitive. To reduce (ideas, principles, procedures, etc.) to a general system; to systematize.
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the world > relative properties > order > put in (proper) order [verb (transitive)] > reduce to order > systematize
adjust1675
systemize1748
systematizea1751
codify1858
cyclopaedize1860
1858 A. P. Peabody Immutable Right 11 Euclid created no truth; but he first codified that portion of eternal truth which appertains to space and dimension.
1873 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 2) ii. 186 He proceeds on the principle of codifying the actual practice [of orthography].
1880 R. Jefferies Hodge & Masters II. 205 The grumbles, the complaints and so forth, had never been codified.
1959 J. Ruesch & W. Kees Nonverbal Communication ii. viii. 76 Without numbers and words, the cumulative body of knowledge of mankind could not have been codified.
2019 Hindustan Times (Mumbai) (Nexis) 3 Feb. An initiative under which states will discuss and codify their best practices and innovations in education so they can learn from each other.
3. transitive. To place (something) in a particular class; to classify as.
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1987 Toronto Star 24 Sept. a6/5 ‘Is this a matter of right or a matter of privilege?’ she asked. ‘At Metro, it's a matter of right.’ But the TTC has ‘definitely codified it as a matter of privilege, and I don't think that's correct.’
2015 N.Y. Times 15 Apr. d9/2 Mayonnaise was first codified as a sauce by the father of haute cuisine, Marie-Antoine Carême.

Derivatives

ˈcodified adj.
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the world > relative properties > order > [adjective] > of or relating to a system > systematized
systemed1651
systemized1784
systematized1787
codified1831
1831 N.-Y. Spectator 11 Oct. Our Revised Statutes, as they are called, (Codified Statutes would be the more appropriate phrase).
1874 J. Parker Paraclete i. v. 56 There are codified lives that can move only as the book permits.
2016 Mangem. Decision (Nexis) 11 July It might be that when ICT infrastructures are heavily used for exchanging information within the organization, this stimulates the flow of more codified knowledge, while inhibiting less formal.
ˈcodifying n.
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the world > relative properties > order > [noun] > putting in order > giving orderly structure to something > systematizing
systematizing1752
systemizing1772
systematization1817
codifying1825
systemization1828
codification1848
adjustment1881
1825 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 416 Some attempts at this private codifying of the common law..have also been made.
1861 C. H. Pearson Early & Middle Ages Eng. I. xxxiii. 570 The feeling of the times was against the codifying of customs.
2019 Malta Independent (Nexis) 27 Aug. Prisons date back to the rise of the state as a form of social organisation, tied very closely with the codifying of formal legal codes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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