codify

• It will codify the terms, link them together, and give readers, writers, and outside observers a common tongue one easily expressed to each other whether in book group or at your favorite convention. —  Grasping for the Wind
• Back to Peter Russell's contention that the days of getting by on unwritten rules of parliamentary procedure are over: in order to codify, the political leaders have to be on side, and given the alternative - that such a decision could ultimately fall to the Supreme Court - a political solution would seem greatly preferable. —  Macleans.ca
• However, the invisible hands guiding the process of who made it into sacred hall quickly found that by enshrining rock music, they threatened to codify it and essentially lay down laws on a music whose reputation is built completely on bending and breaking all the rules. —  KITV.com - Local New
• That same bureaucracy continually recreated by an army of politically connected lawyers who codify all kinds of mean little tricks and turns, so that the corporate power structure that they service, finds all kinds of handy legal maneuvers to loot and legally steal the national treasury, often without anybody even noticing. —  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
• This provision would codify this rule by forbidding the NRC from denying an application on the grounds that there is not sufficient capacity. —  Darwiniana

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