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a1751 [implied in: Visct. Bolingbroke Wks. (1754) V. 155 The great systematiser of christianity was himself a Pharisee. (at systematizer n.)].

1751 J. Harris Hermes i. vii. 111 'Tis a variety of such observations, all respecting one subject, which when systematized by just reasoning, and made habitual by due practice, form the character of a Master-Artist.

1767 G. Lyttelton Hist. Henry II II. 264 The eastern and western Goths..had some general notions of the feudal policy, which were gradually systematised.

a1780 J. Harris Philol. Inq. (1781) ii. xii. 224 Many things have been done in the best and purest taste, long before Rules were established, and systematized in form.

1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. viii. 250 His restless ambition..had systematised intrigue.

1830 J. Mackintosh Diss. Progress Ethical Philos. 22 The vast collection of laws enacted or systematized by Justinian.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 343 Hallucinations, which are systematised into delusions.

1917 Edinb. Rev. July 101 He [sc. Machiavelli] systematised the policy that bears his name.

1940 M. Tippett Let. 6 Feb. (2005) 128 I perceive things more quickly than I can systematise them.

1984 Listener 26 Apr. 13/3 There is little room to systematise our ideas about social and political values.

2012 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 25 Oct. 61/1 Comte was a thinker, after all, who attempted to systematize all the knowledge of his age.

1776 F. Spilsbury Free Thoughts on Quacks i. 10 Formerly, one single physician did not take upon himself..to systematise and dissert boldly upon all sorts of disordered habits of the body.

1833 H. Martineau in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 458 Others may systematize, having learned from him how extensively they may embody.

1869 J. R. Cormack tr. A. Trousseau Lect. Clin. Med. II. Introd. 27 Exercise your mind and judgment, and compel yourselves to systematise for yourselves!

1911 J. Oman in Expositor Oct. 362 The moment he proceeds to systematise,..he knows, just as little as any other systematiser, what to do with personality.

1984 Artist Sept. 14/2 One of Bernard's great strengths as a colourist..is that he never systematises arbitrarily, or falls into formulae.

2008 C. L. Martin & R. A. Fabes Discovering Child Devel. iv. viii. 249/2 People with autism show deficits in social interaction, while at the same time they show a strong drive to systematize.

1787 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Norfolk II. To Rdr. p. iv I was desirous..to have incorporated the Minutes with the systematized matter.

1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham III. xv. 237 The systematized roguery of London.

1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-bk. Sherlock Holmes 71 He could elevate my simple art, which is but systematized common sense, into a prodigy.

2003 R. MacFarlane Mountains of Mind (2004) ii. 63 As advances in bathysphere technology permitted the more systematized exploration of the ocean floor, it was discovered that the continents did indeed move.