methodize

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

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

Johnson striving to methodize his life, to fight against sloth and all the minor vices to which he was prone, is the Johnson whom some of us prefer to keep ever in mind. 

From Immortal Memories by Clement King Shorter

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

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

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

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

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

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

Those rules, of old discovered, not devised, Are nature still, but nature methodized; Nature, like liberty, is but restrained By the same laws which first herself ordained.

From An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope

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

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

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

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

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

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