Definition of "codified" [codified]

• Simple past tense and past participle of codify. (verb)

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• ""Defense umbrella" is a term codified by decades of Cold War experience and theory."
• "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. ""
• "If human rights fail to be manifested in codified laws or put into effect by states, then, as rendered in the preamble of the"