The action or process of arranging laws or rules according to a system or plan.
a codification of existing common-law principles
the formal codification of yoga in India
Example sentencesExamples
The conferences made important advances in codification of the laws of land warfare.
By 1924, the codification of "classical narrative cinema" in Hollywood was complete.
The caste system was envisaged as the expression and codification of the social and ethnic realities inherent in all societies.
The publishing industry was linked to the "laws"—in the form of rule books, grammars, and other forms of codification—that began to thrive in 18th-century England.
Lingering on under a six-month extension, the agency busied itself mostly with writing official histories of the codification experience.
It wasn't really codification, because Congress did not set down a legislative rule to supplant the judicial one.
The very thing that enables expertise to develop, namely the codification of expert language, leads inevitably to entrainment of thinking.
The nobility sought to defend its privileged status against incomers by genealogical codification, strict endogamy, or legal barriers.
The colonial government attempted to reorganize the land tenure system to encourage the codification of individual land holdings.
Templar constructions were not reflections of some mystical codifications.
Definition of codification in US English:
codification
noun
The action or process of arranging laws or rules according to a system or plan.
a codification of existing common-law principles
the formal codification of yoga in India
Example sentencesExamples
The very thing that enables expertise to develop, namely the codification of expert language, leads inevitably to entrainment of thinking.
The caste system was envisaged as the expression and codification of the social and ethnic realities inherent in all societies.
The conferences made important advances in codification of the laws of land warfare.
It wasn't really codification, because Congress did not set down a legislative rule to supplant the judicial one.
The nobility sought to defend its privileged status against incomers by genealogical codification, strict endogamy, or legal barriers.
The publishing industry was linked to the "laws"—in the form of rule books, grammars, and other forms of codification—that began to thrive in 18th-century England.
Lingering on under a six-month extension, the agency busied itself mostly with writing official histories of the codification experience.
Templar constructions were not reflections of some mystical codifications.
The colonial government attempted to reorganize the land tenure system to encourage the codification of individual land holdings.
By 1924, the codification of "classical narrative cinema" in Hollywood was complete.