methodize

[ meth-uh-dahyz ]

verb (used with object)

, meth·od·ized, meth·od·iz·ing.

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

methodize

/ ˈmɛθəˌdaɪz /

verb

1. tr to organize according to a method; systematize

Derived Forms

• ˈmethodˌizer, noun
• ˌmethodiˈzation, noun

Other Words From

• method·izer noun
• un·method·ized adjective
• un·method·izing adjective
• well-method·ized adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of methodize¹

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

The chief value of the prescription is, in fact, often to methodize the mode of life of the patient and to remind him at frequently recurring intervals of the regimen which has been ordered with it.

From Project Gutenberg

Lord Brougham did something to methodize, and more to popularize, the facts of science.

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Sheridan did no more than echo a common complaint when he worried over the "many bad consequences" attending a neglect of the English language; countless writers addressed themselves to a determination of phonology and pronunciation in the attempt "to methodize" the language.

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That the English are the only civilized people, either of ancient or modern times, who neglected to cultivate their language, or to methodize it in such a way, as that the knowlege of it might be regularly acquired, is a proposition no less strange than true.

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