methodize

American  

[meth-uh-dahyz] / ˈmɛθ əˌdaɪz /

especially British, methodise

verb (used with object)

methodized, methodizing

1. to reduce (something) to a method.

2. to arrange (something) according to a method.

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methodize British  

/ ˈmɛθəˌdaɪz /

verb

1. (tr) to organize according to a method; systematize

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Other Word Forms

• methodization noun
• methodizer noun
• unmethodized adjective
• unmethodizing adjective
• well-methodized adjective

Etymology

Origin of methodize

First recorded in 1580–90; method + -ize

Example Sentences

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

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 Addison, Joseph

Let me take my favourite and lonely path, and, by a deliberate review of the past, refresh my memory and methodize my recollections.

From Jane Talbot by Brown, Charles Brockden

For these reasons it was necessary to methodize the whole work; to abridge some parts of it; and to leave out many things that appear to be trifling.

From History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing by Le Page du Pratz

Lord Brougham did something to methodize, and more to popularize, the facts of science.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)