Meaning & use
Codified
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Arranged laws, rules, or procedures systematically into a formal, organized written code.
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The company finally codified its safety procedures into a single employee handbook.
Many ancient legal traditions were never codified and survived only through oral custom.
A note on using this word
Comes from 'code' plus the verb-forming suffix '-ify'; it entered English in the 19th century alongside the rise of formal legal codes like the Napoleonic Code.
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uncodifieddisorganized
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