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

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 Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

Criticism, then, has to methodize and focus them.

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David

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 Ashmole, Elias

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 Milman, Henry Hart