The Collaborative International Dictionary
Methodize \Meth"od*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Methodized; p.
pr. & vb. n. Methodizing.]
To reduce to method; to dispose in due order; to arrange in a
convenient manner; as, to methodize one's work or thoughts.
--Spectator.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to make methodical," 1580s, from method + -ize. Related: Methodized; methodizing.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To reduce to method or order; to arrange in an orderly or systematic manner. 2 (context obsolete English) To make someone orderly or methodical. 3 (context obsolete English) To convert someone to Methodism. 4 (context obsolete English) To talk Methodism. 5 To perform a theatrical role in accordance with the principles of method acting.
Usage examples of "methodize".
Therefore, what necessity was there on account of these gifts, either of soul, or body, or outward estate, to worship and invoke so great a crowd of gods, all of whom I have not mentioned, nor have they themselves been able to provide for all human benefits, minutely and singly methodized, minute and single gods, when the one goddess Felicity was able, with the greatest ease, compendiously to bestow the whole of them?
At his command, the historical examples of vice and virtue were methodized in fifty-three books, ^7 and every citizen might apply, to his contemporaries or himself, the lesson or the warning of past times.
But in the year one thousand five hundred and eighty the ancient statutes were collected, methodized in three books, and adapted to present use, under the pontificate, and with the approbation, of Gregory the Thirteenth: ^83 this civil and criminal code is the modern law of the city.
In a sense he's a glorified gardener who values neatness and order, nature methodized, not rampant across the eons and imbued with some kind of transcendent mentality, at least as regards the human species.
The first was a short paragraph in the local newspaper, which, beyond making by a methodizing pen formidable presumptive evidence of Troy’s death by drowning, contained the important testimony of a young Mr.
The first was a short paragraph in the local newspaper, which, beyond making by a methodizing pen formidable presumptive evidence of Troy’.