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Though it’s offered through the art department, the students are equipped with multiple kinds of constructive tools: they learn to write, think visually, and methodize their research on the topic.
From Time ● May 26, 2015
They persisted in the use of their simple fare, and endeavoured to contract their wants, and methodize their occupations, by a standard as rigid as possible.
From Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown
He has been living since his marriage in Hampshire, where he has not had the aid of his old habits and accustomed books to methodize his mind.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various
There is a certain irregular Way in their Narrations or Discourse, which has something more warm and pleasing than we meet with among Men who are used to adjust and methodize their Thoughts.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Joseph Addison
But the human faculties are fortified by the art and practice of dialectics; the ten predicaments of Aristotle collect and methodize our ideas, and his syllogism is the keenest weapon of dispute.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Henry Hart Milman
There are two parts in a man's life, the serious and the merry; and each must be regulated and methodized.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
In the meantime the bombardment of the forts and villages to the east of the city is continuing, and with that passion for system in everything which distinguishes the Germans, it is being methodized.
From Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Henry Labouchere
Quigg looked upon the day as one of business, and not of pleasure, and had methodized a system of callmaking, which was submitted to his companions, and highly approved by them.
From Round the Block by John Bell Bouton
The rules of evidence in civil and in criminal cases, in law and in equity, being only reason methodized, are certainly the same.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
On the other hand, science is exclusively a knowledge of nature, consisting of methodized observations concerning distinct orders of facts, and rational inferences founded upon these.
From The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 by Henry Calderwood
For the better methodizing the particulars of these games and exercises, it will be necessary to begin with an account of the Athletæ, or combatants.
From The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) by Charles Rollin
The duties of the secretary of the society were laid down and were arduous, including much foreign correspondence, in addition to the correcting, abstracting, and methodizing of such papers as required it.
From Inventors by Philip Gengembre Hubert
I have read little; I have a very weak memory, and retain little of what I read; am unused to composition in which any methodizing is required.
From The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb
It signifies methodizing, reducing to a plan; and then, in a bad sense, scheming, plotting.
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by G. G. Findlay
Least of all would I fix the transitory spirit of civil fury by perpetuating and methodizing it in tyrannic government.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
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