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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act or process of methodizing or reducing to method; the state of being methodized. Also spelled methodisation.

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  • noun The act or process of methodizing, or the state of being methodized.

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  • noun The act or process of methodizing, or the state of being methodized.

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Examples

  • In various sorts of whales, they form such irregular combinations; or, in the case of any one of them detached, such an irregular isolation; as utterly to defy all general methodization formed upon such a basis.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • In various sorts of whales, they form such irregular combinations; or, in the case of any one of them detached, such an irregular isolation; as utterly to defy all general methodization formed upon such a basis.

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

  • In various sorts of whales, they form such irregular combinations; or, in the case of any one of them detached, such an irregular isolation; as utterly to defy all general methodization formed upon such a basis.

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

  • In various sorts of whales, they form such irregular combinations; or, in the case of any one of them detached, such an irregular isolation; as utterly to defy all general methodization formed upon such a basis.

    Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

  • The conceptions, then, which we employ for the colligation and methodization of facts, do not develop themselves from within, but are impressed upon the mind from without; they are never obtained otherwise than by way of comparison and abstraction, and, in the most important and the most numerous cases, are evolved by abstraction from the very phenomena which it is their office to colligate.

    A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839

  • And since the bible doesn’t specifically differentiate between metaphor and the literal, what is your methodization of splitting up what really happened to what is folk-lore?

    On Theocracies « Whatever 2006

  • "The World's Charity is to be a society whose members shall comprise deputies from every charity and mission extant; the one object of the society to be the methodization of the world's benevolence; to which end, the present system of voluntary and promiscuous contribution to be done away, and the Society to be empowered by the various governments to levy, annually, one grand benevolence tax upon all mankind; as in

    The Confidence-Man Herman Melville 1855

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