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单词 methodical
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methodicaladj.

Brit. /mᵻˈθɒdᵻkl/, U.S. /məˈθɑdək(ə)l/
Forms: 1500s–1600s methodicall, 1500s– methodical.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin methodicus , -al suffix1.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin methodicus methodic adj. + -al suffix1; compare -ical suffix.
1.
a. Of an action, pursuit, procedure, etc.: characterized by method or order; performed or carried on systematically or meticulously. Of discourse, etc.: arranged in an orderly or systematic way.
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the world > relative properties > order > [adjective] > of or relating to a system > systematic
formal1413
methodical1570
methodic1620
systematical1686
systematic1722
systemical1724
scientific?1757
the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [adjective] > methodical (of persons) > of actions
regular?1558
methodical1570
methodic1620
systematic1722
scientific?1757
1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. bj There are other (very many) Methodicall Artes.
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Fff3v The Interpretations of the Scriptures are of two sorts: Methodical, and Solute, or at large. View more context for this quotation
1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 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.
1699 G. Farquhar Love & Bottle iv. ii. 43 Then they hate to hear a fellow in Church preach methodical Nonsense, with a Firstly, Secondly, and Thirdly.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 3. ¶2 I fell insensibly into a kind of Methodical Dream, which dispos'd all my Contemplations into a Vision or Allegory.
1778 W. Cullen First Lines Pract. Physic (ed. 2) I. Introd. §2 A Methodical Nosology, or an arrangement of diseases according to their genera and species.
1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter (1863) 99 This is to be a methodical discourse.
1875 C. Lyell & L. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 12) II. iii. xxxvi. 289 Unconscious selection acts more powerfully than methodical selection.
1903 Expositor May 390 Methodical directions for the management of missions were not bequeathed by the Lord to his disciples.
1931 V. Woolf Waves 170 Painters live lives of methodical absorption, adding stroke to stroke.
1982 J. Campbell Grammatical Man iii. xiv. 165 As an innate predisposition, enabling a child to acquire competence in a language quickly and without methodical instruction, universal grammar leaves almost nothing to chance.
b. Of material things: arranged in a neat or orderly manner. rare.
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the world > relative properties > order > [adjective] > ordered or systematically arranged > well-ordered or well-arranged
well-disposeda1398
arrayedc1405
well-laid1577
methodical1650
well-digested1708
well-ordered1712
well-arranged1823
well-structured1837
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. ii. 79 No methodicall monument but this hurdle of stones was fittest for such a causer of confusion [i.e. for Absalom].
1904 Union Mag. Jan. 5/2 He always wore a tightly buttoned up frock-coat..and a methodical black neck-tie.
2. History of Science. Of, designating, or relating to the methodists (methodist n. 2). Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [adjective] > ancient > methodic
methodic?1541
methodical1574
1574 G. Baker tr. Composition Oleum Magistrale f. 35 For the which cause the Methodicall chirurgian, must haue a great respect to these wounds, in taking his Iudication of things naturall, not naturall and against nature.
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 49 b/1 The Empiricke medicamentes which the Methodicall Physicianes doe so disdayne.
1650 R. Gentilis tr. V. Malvezzi Considerations Lives Alcibiades & Corialanus 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.
1727–41 E. Chambers Cycl. at Methodists Galen..scrupled not to assert, that the methodical heresy ruined every thing that was good in the art [of medicine].
1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. iv. i. 250 That medical sect which was termed the empirical, in contradistinction to the rational and methodical sects.
3. Of a person: acting with or observant of method or order; painstaking, meticulous.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [adjective] > methodical (of persons)
orderly1581
methodical1589
regular1602
methodic1729
systematic1790
reg'lar1814
scientific1863
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxi. 209 To th'end we may not be carped at by these methodicall men, that we haue omitted any necessary point.
1622 J. Webbe Appeale to Truth 9 Some..be succinct, and methodicall in their precepts.
1664 S. Pepys Diary 29 Feb. (1971) V. 70 I find him a most exact and methodicall man.
1706 J. Addison Rosamond i. ii Let me appear, Great sir, I pray Methodical in what I say.
1792 T. Holcroft Anna St. Ives V. xcv. 184 She is very methodical, as all your very wise people more or less are.
1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. vii. 42 The English are methodical even in their recreations.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. ii. i. 165 Small,..neat, methodical, and buxom was Miss Peecher.
1955 S. Wilson Man in Gray Flannel Suit xii. 79 They had been methodical, they had done things According to Plan.
1981 N. Kea Scorpion i. iii. 13 Carefully, for he was a methodical man, he arranged two small tables on either side of the..armchair.
1991 Hang Gliding Nov. 14/1 The point is that he was an engineer, detailed and methodical, whose career involved making flight safe for others.

Derivatives

methodicality n. Obsolete rare = methodicalness n.
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1861 Temple Bar 2 549 You can see the methodicality of these folks in every thread of their clothes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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