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
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
Let me take my favourite and lonely path, and, by a deliberate review of the past, refresh my memory and methodize my recollections.
From Jane Talbot by Charles Brockden Brown
They persisted in the use of their simple fare, and endeavoured to contract their wants, and methodize their occupations, by a standard as rigid as possible.
From Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown
Churchill argues that it was “a sin ’gainst Pleasure, to design / A plan, to methodize each thought, each line / Highly to finish.”
From The Methodist A Poem by Evan Lloyd
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
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
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 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
On board ship they methodized the day—had prayers, sang hymns and studied, read, exhorted and wrote as if it were their last day on earth.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers by Elbert Hubbard
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
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
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
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