Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Systematize \Sys"tem*a*tize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Systematized; p. pr. & vb. n. Systematizing.] [Cf. F. syst['e]matiser. Cf. Systemize.] To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas.
Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before
medicine and architecture were systematized into arts.
--Harris.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"make into a system," 1764, from French systématiser or a native formation from system (Greek stem systemat-) + -ize. Related: Systematized; systematizing.
Wiktionary
vb. To arrange into a systematic order.
WordNet
v. arrange according to a system or reduce to a system; "systematize our scientific knowledge" [syn: systematise, systemize, systemise]
Usage examples of "systematize".
Meanwhile, defining and systematizing went on, loose notions hardened into rigid dogmas, free thought was hampered by authority, the scheme generally received assumed the title of orthodox, anathematizing all who dared to dissent, and the fundamental outlines of the patristic eschatology were firmly established.
Neglect was the lightest term that could be applied to the systematized and cold-hearted tyranny of Henry towards his wife.
For the peculiar theories which were matured and systematized in the second and third centuries by the Gnostic sects were floating about, in crude and fragmentary forms, at the close of the first century, when the apostle wrote.
The easiest and surest why of acquiring facts is to learn them in groups, in systems, and systematized knowledge is science.
They reduced the number of illustrated articles, and they systematized the payment of contributors strictly according to the sales of each number, on their original plan of co-operation: they had got to paying rather lavishly for material without reference to the sales.
Hartley, in 1784, had anticipated many of the doctrines which have since been systematized into the theory of reflex actions, and with which I have attempted to associate this act of reflex vision.
CHAPTER XVI Lady Blandish, and others who professed an interest in the fortunes and future of the systematized youth, had occasionally mentioned names of families whose alliance according to apparent calculations, would not degrade his blood: and over these names, secretly preserved on an open leaf of the note-book, Sir Austin, as he neared the metropolis, distantly dropped his eye.
So far we have considered only two of the main activities of the Open Conspiracy, the one being its propaganda of confidence in the possible world commonweal, and the other its immediate practical attempt to systematize resistance to militant and competitive imperialism and nationalism.
The religion systematized by Mohammed had spread from the Arabian Peninsula to Morocco in the west and the Philippines in the east, and with the evolution of the modern world was represented in every nation on earth.
There is in every native of Normandy, be he peasant or gentleman, an infinite capacity for enjoyment, and at the same time a marvellous faculty for co-ordinating and systematizing his pleasures.
Probably in epistolary format, back-and-forth between a range of fee clients and the wretches responding to them, my novel would partake of the collision of gullibility and indifference, intensity and disdain, all of it as systematized as an assembly line, the authors of the responses as indifferent to the meaning and central absurdity of the situation as swallows in a cathedral.
We can only systematize and deepen our assumptions and attempt to assign probabilities to them.
Rather than just printing coupons in newspapers and calculating their return rate, Turley systematized the entire process of marketing and advertising.
Rabbi Luria's work in systematizing the content of the Zohar was a step in this direction.