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methodical, a.|mɪˈθədɪkəl|
[f. late L. methodicus: see prec. and -ical.]
1. Hist. = methodic a. 1.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 49 b/1 The Empiricke medicamentes which the Methodicall Physicianes doe so disdayne. 1650R. Gentilis Considerations 50 Though a great wise man compared a man that wanted Science, and had Experience, to an Empyrick Physitian, and the learned man to the Methodicall; yet hee was deceived in the comparison. 1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v. Methodists, Galen..scrupled not to assert, that the methodical heresy ruined every thing that was good in the art [of medicine]. 1837Whewell Hist. Induct. Sci. (1857) I. 192 That..medical sect which was termed the empirical, in contradistinction to the rational and methodical sects.
2. Characterized by method or order; constructed, performed, or carried on in accordance with method; arranged or disposed with order or regularity.
1570Dee Math. Pref. b j, There are other (very many) Methodicall Artes. 1645Milton Tetrach. 23 Yet Moses..condescends in this place to such a methodical and School-like way of defining, and consequencing, as in no place of the whole Law more. 1698Farquhar Love & Bottle iv. ii, Then they hate to hear a fellow in Church preach methodical Nonsense, with a Firstly, Secondly, and Thirdly. 1711Addison Spect. No. 3 ⁋2, I fell insensibly into a kind of Methodical Dream, which disposed all my Contemplations into a Vision or Allegory. 1862Burton Bk. Hunter (1863) 99 This is to be a methodical discourse. 1903Expositor May 390 Methodical directions for the management of missions were not bequeathed by the Lord to his disciples.
b. Of material things: Arranged in a neat or orderly manner. rare.
1650Fuller Pisgah ii. Gad §15. 79 No methodicall monument but this hurdle of stones was fittest for such a causer of confusion [Absalom]. 1904Union Mag. Jan. 5/2 He always wore a tightly buttoned up frock-coat..and a methodical black neck-tie.
3. Of persons, their actions, etc.: Acting with or observant of method or order.
1664Pepys Diary 29 Feb., I find him a most exact and methodicall man. 1706Addison Rosamond i. ii, Let me appear, Great sir, I pray Methodical in what I say. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk., Angler ⁋13 The English are methodical even in their recreations. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. ii. i, Small,..neat, methodical, and buxom was Miss Peecher. 1875Lyell's Princ. Geol. II. iii. xxxvi. 289 Unconscious selection acts more powerfully than methodical selection.
Hence methodiˈcality, rare, the property of being methodical.
1861Temple Bar II. 549 You can see the methodicality of these folks in every thread of their clothes. |