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
But the human faculties are fortified by the art and practice of dialectics; the ten predicaments of Aristotle collect and methodize our ideas, and his syllogism is the keenest weapon of dispute.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Henry Hart Milman
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
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
Since the death of Priscillian, the rude attempts of persecution have been refined and methodized in the holy office, which assigns their distinct parts to the ecclesiastical and secular powers.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 by Henry Hart Milman
Quigg looked upon the day as one of business, and not of pleasure, and had methodized a system of callmaking, which was submitted to his companions, and highly approved by them.
From Round the Block by John Bell Bouton
They in turn methodized them for their forty-eight deputies, and one hundred and ninety-two servants—in addition to the female who came to the house to receive the weekly wash—performed their daily task intelligently and harmoniously.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
The fact that the material of a science is organized is evidence that it has already been subjected to intelligence; it has been methodized, so to say.
From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by John Dewey
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
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
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
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
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