codify Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb organize into a code or system, such as a body of law
    • Hammurabi codified the laws

WordNet

Co"di*fy transitive verb
Etymology
Code + -fy: cf. F. codifier.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Codified ; present participle & verbal noun Codifying
Definitions
  1. To reduce to a code, as laws.

Webster 1913