methodize
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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
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
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 Timothy Templeton
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 paymaster-general.
From Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke
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
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
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
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 George Birkbeck Norman Hill
In the modern classical period somewhat -145-later, these rules were found to be based on reason:— "These rules of old, discovered not devised, Are nature still, but nature methodized."
From A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Joel Elias Spingarn
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 William Gannaway Brownlow
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
It signifies methodizing, reducing to a plan; and then, in a bad sense, scheming, plotting.
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by G. G. Findlay
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
But we lose the perceptions before we are capable of methodizing or comparing them.
From Modern Painters Volume II (of V) by John Ruskin
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