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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

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 Charles Brockden Brown

But after he has thus invented what is proper to be said, with what accuracy must he methodize it?

From Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. by E. Jones

It is also said that men of business have the most leisure; and it sometimes seems to be true, where they methodize their plans properly.

From The Young Man's Guide by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

I believed that an attempt to range and methodize some of our most leading passions would be a good preparative to such an inquiry as we are going to make in the ensuing discourse.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

They are somehow opposed, yet art turns out to be only "nature methodized."

From Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series by Sir Leslie Stephen

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

He may view, therefore, with perfect equanimity, a degree of methodized clamour and violence, which would overthrow a Minister of a different stamp.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 by Various

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 Joseph Addison

Geometry, see Euclid methodized for Facility, Fermat: in the Catalogue of Books.

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Henry Oldenburg

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

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

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

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

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

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

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