Definition of "codifies" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of codify. (verb)

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• "Richards says the order only "codifies" what's already in the bill."
• "There is no formal body in recruiting that "codifies" the established practices."
• "And why the equivalent urgency to reject all religion and with it the profoundly human impulses that it codifies, blaming every human ill upon it (although, in fairness, organized religion seems to be rather too much of this world, replacing actual religious experience with systems of command and control)?"