codify

Verb

Verb Forms: codified, codifying, codifies

• To arrange laws or rules into a systematic code or system.
• organize into a code or system, such as a body of law
• To reduce to a code, to arrange into a code.
• To collect and arrange in a systematic form.
• To enact as an official rule or law.

Examples

• The company president codified the goal as a one-line mission statement.
• The players tried to codify their unwritten house rules for competitive Scrabble.

Synonyms

inscripturate, systematise, systematize

Related Words

code, codex