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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
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
I found an opinion common through all the offices, and general in the public at large, that it would prove impossible to reform and methodize the office of pay-master-general.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
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
Everything wore a sombre, heavy air—even the men seemed born to methodize on some one object.
From The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth by Templeton, Timothy
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 Bouton, John Bell
They in turn methodized them for their forty-eight deputies, and one hundred and ninety-two servants—in addition to the female who came to the house to receive the weekly wash—performed their daily task intelligently and harmoniously.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
All this appeared to me, I own, methodized madness.
From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
This is the essence of the American creed; and when methodized into a Political Decalogue, it constitutes the Ten Commandments of the American party.
From Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors by Brownlow, William Gannaway
Missing that aim, the Rosicrucian story lived to be adorned by superstitious fancy, with ideas of mystery and magic, which in the Comte de Gabalis were methodized into a consistent romance.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph
It signifies methodizing, reducing to a plan; and then, in a bad sense, scheming, plotting.
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.
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 Burke, Edmund
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 Hubert, Philip Gengembre
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 Burke, Edmund
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 Rollin, Charles
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