codify

code +‎ -ify

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑ.dɨˌfaɪ/, /ˈkoʊ.dɨˌfaɪ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊ.dɨˌfaɪ/

codify (third-person singular simple present codifies, present participle codifying, simple past and past participle codified)

1. To reduce to a code, to arrange into a code.

   The company president codified the goal as a one-line mission statement.

2. To collect and arrange in a systematic form.
   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter V, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:

     The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth ; […]. As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “ near-aissance.”

• systematize

• code
• codex