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methodize, v.|ˈmɛθədaɪz|
Also -ise.
[f. method n. + -ize.]
1. a. trans. To reduce to method or order; to arrange (thoughts, ideas, expression, etc.) in an orderly manner.
1589Nashe Anat. Absurd. Ep. Ded. 2, I..coulde not but methodize this admiration in this digression. 1671Baxter Holiness Design Chr. lxiv. 18 They have not the skil to word and methodize their notions rightly. 1700Dryden Sigism. & Guisc. 258 The royal spy..retired unseen, To..methodize revenge. 1713Berkeley Guardian No. 39 ⁋8 He should be taught..to order and methodise his ideas. 1881Shorthouse J. Inglesant (1882) II. 371 That art of reasoning..which methodizes and facilitates our discourse.
absol.1707Pope Let. to Wycherley 29 Nov., To methodize in your Case, is full as necessary as to strike out. a1834Coleridge On Method in Encycl. Metrop. I. Introd. 5 The mind..is disposed to generalize and methodize to excess.
b. To render (a person) orderly or methodical.
1814F. Burney Let. 3 Apr., I have given him..to soberise and methodize him a little, a private tutor.
c. To convert into Methodists.
1846A. Wiley in Indiana Mag. Hist. (1927) XXIII. 428 Some disciples who are hard cases, will be hard to methodize.
2. intr. To talk methodistically.
1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 12 Sept., She was grave and gay by turns. She moralized and Methodized; she laughed, and romped [etc.].
3. Theatr. = method-act vb. (see method n. 2 e).
1958Spectator 31 Jan. 136/3 The pouting and posturing and methodising. 1960Ibid. 18 Nov. 782/3 John Dexter's production has been much condemned... Perhaps he should have varied the pace, Methodised the delivery.
Hence ˈmethodized ppl. a.; ˈmethodizing vbl. n. Also ˈmethodizer, one who methodizes.
a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. (1598) 312 All her long methodized oration was inherited onely by such kinde of speeches. 1646R. Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. (Bannatyne Club) II. 401 Yet, in the review, the alteration of words, and the methodizeing, takes up so much time, that we know not when we shall end. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. vi. ii. 294 Their methodizing was meerly managed by the will of the Clerk of the Writs. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §13 God was only the Orderer, or the Methodizer and Harmonizer thereof. 1796Burke Regic. Peace ii. Wks. VIII. 235 The methodized reasonings of the great publicists and jurists. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 158 This methodiser of commonplaces. 1886A. Weir Hist. Basis Mod. Europe (1889) 113 The methodised frivolity of their lives. |