The French grammarians of the 18th century had lasting effect on all the Romance standards, concerned as they were with maintaining "purity," eliminating "vulgarity," and strictly codifying usage, often more in accord with logical than linguistic considerations.
Perhaps these definitions should be understood not as attempts to codify current usage but as proposals for linguistic reform (which, was a common dodge on the part of mid-century philosophers when their purported analyses proved false).
Shortly after, Anton Bernolák produced a grammar (1790) and dictionary (1825 27) of the Slovak language and codified its literary usage.
We held that such a procedure was permitted by Rule 42 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, 18 U.S.C.A., which codified the "prevailing usages at law". The Court specifically rejected the contention that the judge who heard the contempt was disqualified from punishing it and should be required to assume the role of accuser or complaining witness before another judge.
It can be traced to a time before current apostrophe usage had been codified, when people often used apostrophes to signal in an obvious way that a word ending in a vowel was in fact a plural noun.
His grammar of Czech, Lehrgebäude der böhmischen Sprache (1809; "Learning System of the Bohemian Language"), codified the language and brought order to the usage of the literary language that had come to be neglected in the preceding 150 years.
Honorifics are something of an obsession at the Times, whose editors, having reflected deeply upon the subject, have codified their thoughts in "The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage".
The thinking behind that decision was codified in the 1976 revision of The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage, a publication used as an authority by others as well.
Eating schedules were codified.
Tamping is also codified.
It clearly codified trademark protective measures.
