Definition of "codifying" []

• Present participle of codify. (verb)

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• "Years ago, in codifying Federal crimes, the US Government incorporated all known acts that a terrorist might commit into Title 18 of the United States."
• "If they succeed in codifying islam as the final say on the law constitutionally – then their form of government is basically identical to that of Iran."
• "Not until the councils of Nicaea and Chalcedon, three and four centuries, respectively, after the death of Jesus, did the custodians of his memory succeed in codifying"