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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of codify.

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  • adjective enacted by a legislative body

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Examples

  • "Defense umbrella" is a term codified by decades of Cold War experience and theory.

    Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post 2009

  • Most of the films cover a post-war to late '60s period when art houses became popular in American cities and the term codified a certain type of urbane international sensibility, derided by Pauline Kael as where "the educated audience often uses' art 'films in much the same self-indulgent way as the mass audience uses Hollywood' product '- finding wish fulfillment in the form of cheap and easy congratulation on their sensitivities and their liberalism. "

    PopMatters 2009

  • If human rights fail to be manifested in codified laws or put into effect by states, then, as rendered in the preamble of the

    Shirin Ebadi - Nobel Lecture 2003

  • The invasion of Iraq is cited as a prime example of Bush’s war crimes, where activists insist Bush should be charged under the UN Resolution 3314, Article 5 (codified from the principles of Nuremberg concerning “Wars of Aggression,” [6] which cites as an historical example Hitler’s invasion of Poland) for committing a “crime against peace.”

    A Tale of Two War Criminals: Bush and Clinton do Toronto : Law is Cool 2009

  • After our harmonic humiliation at the feet of the Lord we'd follow her to the diner across the street and eat a piece of coconut cream pie as Helga engaged in a kind of codified, small-town banter notable for its reliance upon exclamations, nods and the subtle inflection of the eyebrows to emphasize a point.

    Bootstraps 2009

  • Maimonides "codified" in the sense that he took the rulings of the Talmud and reported them in systematic organized fashion, reporting the black letter law without the discussions and debates that arrived at that law.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • They also arrived in time for the civil rights movement, which was meant to give black people equal rights, but also made sure that these new immigrants would never have to deal with the kind of codified, legalized bigotry that black people did.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local perplexedandsaddened 2010

  • They also arrived in time for the civil rights movement, which was meant to give black people equal rights, but also made sure that these new immigrants would never have to deal with the kind of codified, legalized bigotry that black people did.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local perplexedandsaddened 2010

  • The Pentagon has "codified" it, which has nothing to do with cod, but still smells fishy.

    The Daily Gut 2009

  • I think that for me, as somebody who is just taking their first baby steps into a world that is much more recognizable to you [Emily], it's that kind of codified work that keeps us out, and I think that goes across a lot of art, it's a matter of -

    Walker Blogs Combined Feed Jesse Leaneagh 2009

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  • Lovely usage in the NYT: "This prognosis was codified by Karl Rove, whose punditry for The Wall Street Journal and Newsweek has been second only to Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert as a reliable source of laughs this year."

    November 4, 2008