Its basic chant formulas were codified as early as the 8th century into a system known as oktōēchos, first suggested by St. John of Damascus (d. 749), according to the Byzantine treatise Hagiopolites ("From the Holy City").
Beyond these three, his Great Exposition suggests ordinary ethical conduct is codified as well, in the main, in the ten ethical points (Sk. daśa-kuśala-patha) basic to any human life that rises above the mere animal.
The language was codified as early as 1866 and is used in literature and press, which distinguishes it from plain dialects.
27 Knowledge is shown to be both 'slippery', where it is too difficult to codify, as well as 'sticky' or difficult to share across cultural or institutional boundaries.
This shift is recognized in the historical literature: indeed it became codified as early as Richard Titmuss's landmark official history of the home front, The Problems of Social Policy (1950).
This simple notion is now codified as "Mathew's Rule".
The inaugural concert program has become a ritual, almost as codified as haiku.
Lenin's pronouncements, except those uncomplimentary to Stalin, were codified as axioms not open to question.
"Large collections of words have thus become codified as something to fear, as an indicator of intent.
But they will also benefit from being codified as banks that are effectively too big to fail.
