Grace Lee Whitney, Yeoman Rand on Star Trek, Dead at 85. Grace Lee Whitney, best known as Yeoman Janice Rand in the original Star Trek series, died on May 1 at her home in Coarsegold, Calif. She was 85.
verb (used with object), codified, codifying. 1. to reduce (laws, rules, etc.) to a code. 2. to make a digest of; arrange in a systematic collection. Origin of codify. 1795-1805.
While codification is an ongoing process, the most important period of codification [in English] was probably the 18th century, which saw the publication of hundreds of dictionaries and grammars, including Samuel Johnson's monumental Dictionary of the English Language (1755) [in Great Britain] and Noah Webster's The American Spelling Book (1783) in the United States (Routledge Dictionary of English Language Studies, 2007).