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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 will commence regularly, if I can methodize my recollection.
From Thaddeus of Warsaw by Porter, Jane
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 Lamb, Charles
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 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
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 Burke, Edmund
The fact that the material of a science is organized is evidence that it has already been subjected to intelligence; it has been methodized, so to say.
From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by Dewey, John
Debate on the Humble Petition and Advice of the Rump Parliament to Cromwell in 1657, to assume the Title of King; abridged, methodized and digested. intern. evid.
From Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman
His habits of study are wisely methodized, so as to husband time, and make his efforts tell without waste upon results.
From Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men by Joblin, Maurice
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
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.
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
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
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 Grote, George
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 Lamb, Charles
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