0 to arrange something, such as laws or rules, into a system
1 to organize and write a law or system of laws
2 to arrange something such as laws or rules into a formal system for people to follow:
He collected the scattered codes, so far as laws were codified, of the various Germanic nations, and modified them.
In society it takes the form of custom which, when codified, is called law and when enforced is called government.
Instead of simply developing our morals from custom, and therefore codifying them into law as in the school they are now boldly criticised, as in part if not in whole, hindrances to a better state of things.
The Roman law, the law of citizens, had been codified two centuries earlier, and its outline had been hardened by the practice of two centuries.
The grumbles, the complaints, and so forth, had never been codified.
Here, in (b), is a practical yet codified way to put the mask on.
The second phase, the late seventeenth and eighteenth century, sees decorum isolated and codified.
Organic farmers have developed a production system, now codified in federal standards, that is based on investments in soil building and agroecosystem health activities.
