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methodize

[meth-uh-dahyz] / ˈmɛθ əˌdaɪz /


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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We trace it from old barbarism to the methodized Egyptian idolatry; to the more flexible Polytheism of Syria and Greece; the poetical Pantheism of philosophers, and the moral monotheism of a few sages.

From Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed by Francis William Newman

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

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

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




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