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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of methodize.

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Examples

  • It is one scientific means, in a whole panoply of self-transcending techniques, to break—by a methodized effort, through a practical body of psychological processes—the habit of being a human being.

    Of skulls & snakes Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • It is one scientific means, in a whole panoply of self-transcending techniques, to break—by a methodized effort, through a practical body of psychological processes—the habit of being a human being.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • She was grave and gay by turns — she moralized and methodized — she laughed, and romped, and danced, and sung, and sighed, and ogled, and lisped, and fluttered, and flattered — but all was preaching to the desart.

    The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

  • Those who have a propensity to philosophy, will still continue their researches; because they reflect, that, besides the immediate pleasure attending such an occupation, philosophical decisions are nothing but the reflections of common life, methodized and corrected.

    An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 2004

  • All this appeared to me, I own, methodized madness.

    The Last Man 2003

  • All this fires my soul, and provided I am not disturbed, my subjectenlarges itself, becomes methodized and defined, and the whole, though itbe long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind, so that I cansurvey it, like a fine picture or a beautiful statue, at a glance.

    A Mind at a Time M.D. Mel Levine 2002

  • All this fires my soul, and provided I am not disturbed, my subjectenlarges itself, becomes methodized and defined, and the whole, though itbe long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind, so that I cansurvey it, like a fine picture or a beautiful statue, at a glance.

    A Mind at a Time M.D. Mel Levine 2002

  • The hierarchical structure of the universe pro - claimed by the leading Neo-Platonists and codified by the Areopagite was bequeathed to the Middle Ages to be “methodized” into a scheme which affected every single aspect of the period's life and thought.

    HIERARCHY AND ORDER C. A. PATRIDES 1968

  • All the curriculum subjects, not merely dialectic or logic, could be methodized and were, if not by Ramus then by his followers.

    RAMISM WALTER JACKSON ONG 1968

  • It retains the practice of deploying material in spatial patterns to expedite recall, but eliminates all iconography, sub - stituting for statues of Athena, Zeus, and the like mere printed words connected to one another by lines in an extremely simple binary pattern forming the dichotomized Ramist charts of “methodized” noetic material.

    RAMISM WALTER JACKSON ONG 1968

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