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
There is a certain irregular Way in their Narrations or Discourse, which has something more warm and pleasing than we meet with among Men who are used to adjust and methodize their Thoughts.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Joseph Addison
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
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
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
The doctrine of Pope's essay is, in brief, follow Nature, and in order that you may follow nature, observe the rules, which are only "Nature methodized," and also imitate the ancients.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
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
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
At his command, the historical examples of vice and virtue were methodized in fifty-three books, and every citizen might apply, to his contemporaries or himself, the lesson or the warning of past times.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Henry Hart Milman
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
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
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
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 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