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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.


methodize British  
/ ˈmɛθəˌdaɪz /

verb

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of methodize

First recorded in 1580–90; method + -ize

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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

I had a hard task in hand to begin the first part hereof, and much labour I underwent to methodize it as it is.

From William Lilly's History of His Life and Times From the Year 1602 to 1681 by Elias Ashmole

Farewell, in haste, from a head that is too ill to methodize, a stomach to digest, and all out of tune.

From The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb

That what was done in France was a wild attempt to methodize anarchy; to perpetuate and fix disorder.

From Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke

Farewell, in haste, from a head that is ill to methodize, a stomach to digest, and all out of Tune.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

We trace it from old barbarism to the methodized Egyptian idolatry; to the more flexible Polytheism of Syria and Greece; the poetical Pantheism of philosophers, and the moral monotheism of a few sages.

From Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed by Francis William Newman

Armstrong, while accepting the rationalist notions of clarity and simplicity, attacks methodized rules and urges reliance on individuality.

From Essays on Taste by Ralph Cohen

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

At his command, the historical examples of vice and virtue were methodized in fifty-three books, and every citizen might apply, to his contemporaries or himself, the lesson or the warning of past times.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Henry Hart Milman

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

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

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

We find him, while methodizing and illustrating the data of the special science, uniformly keeping in view its relation to philosophy as a whole.

From Review of the Work of Mr John Stuart Mill Entitled, 'Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy.' by George Grote

But we lose the perceptions before we are capable of methodizing or comparing them.

From Modern Painters Volume II (of V) by John Ruskin

Something in every one of them seemed to me to stand in the way of all economy in their administration, and prevented every possibility of methodizing the system.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

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