to code

[Jonathan Lighter]

"To cause (someone) to behave or react in a fixed manner."  Not in OED

1975 Paul Fussell _The Great War and Modern Memory_ (N.Y.: OUP) 247: One
notices and remembers what one has been  "coded" - usually by literature or
its popular equivalent - to notice and remember.

At the time of writing, Prof. Fussell was Professor of English at Rutgers
University.  His book has been very influential in litcrit circles.

JL

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