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
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 Elias Ashmole
He has been living since his marriage in Hampshire, where he has not had the aid of his old habits and accustomed books to methodize his mind.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various
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 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
Armstrong, while accepting the rationalist notions of clarity and simplicity, attacks methodized rules and urges reliance on individuality.
From Essays on Taste by Ralph Cohen
On the other hand, science is exclusively a knowledge of nature, consisting of methodized observations concerning distinct orders of facts, and rational inferences founded upon these.
From The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 by Henry Calderwood
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
But we lose the perceptions before we are capable of methodizing or comparing them.
From Modern Painters Volume II (of V) by John Ruskin