methodize

American  

[meth-uh-dahyz] / ˈmɛθ əˌdaɪz /

especially British, methodise

verb (used with object)

methodized, methodizing

1. to reduce (something) to a method.

2. to arrange (something) according to a method.

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methodize British  

/ ˈmɛθəˌdaɪz /

verb

1. (tr) to organize according to a method; systematize

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Other Word Forms

• methodization noun
• methodizer noun
• unmethodized adjective
• unmethodizing adjective
• well-methodized adjective

Etymology

Origin of methodize

First recorded in 1580–90; method + -ize

Example Sentences

Though it’s offered through the art department, the students are equipped with multiple kinds of constructive tools: they learn to write, think visually, and methodize their research on the topic.

From Time • May 26, 2015

Farewell, in haste, from a head that is too ill to methodize, a stomach to digest, and all out of tune.

From The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Lamb, Charles

Let me take my favourite and lonely path, and, by a deliberate review of the past, refresh my memory and methodize my recollections.

From Jane Talbot by Brown, Charles Brockden

I found an opinion common through all the offices, and general in the public at large, that it would prove impossible to reform and methodize the office of pay-master-general.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

Johnson striving to methodize his life, to fight against sloth and all the minor vices to which he was prone, is the Johnson whom some of us prefer to keep ever in mind. 

From Immortal Memories by Shorter, Clement King