Definition of "methodize" []

• To reduce to or organize according to a method; systematize. (verb-transitive)

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• "I believed that an attempt to range and methodize some of our most leading passions would be a good preparative to such an inquiry as we are going to make in the ensuing discourse."
• "Thus Antonius could readily invent such arguments as were most in point, and afterwards digest and methodize them to the best advantage; and he could likewise retain the plan he had formed with great exactness: but his chief merit was the goodness of his delivery, in which he was justly allowed to excel."
• "But after he has thus _invented_ what is proper to be said, with what accuracy must he _methodize_ it?"