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  • noun Alternative spelling of systematizer.

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  • noun an organizer who puts things in order

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Examples

  • Al – Khalil, the systematiser, found in general use only five

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Wolff was not an original philosopher, but a modernizer and systematiser.

    18th Century German Philosophy Prior to Kant Sassen, Brigitte 2007

  • Neuriposte: making a comeback to based on pseudoscientific speculation as to their neuropsychological makeup: 'that's a very frontal thing to say', 'what a systematiser', 'it seems to me you've not developed your area BA10 :'.

    Mind Hacks: Neurowords 2006

  • But already the mood of the systematiser was strong in me; the mood which led Trollope so endlessly to elaborate his Bassetshire.

    Surprised by Joy Lewis, C. S. 1955

  • Here Werner, the father of geology, and Humboldt, the systematiser of physical geography, were pupils.

    A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie

  • The mental individuality of the two writers, the systematiser and the genius, cannot be compared, and the difference in this respect tells nothing of their respective dates; but in its general views of God, nature, and man, Genesis i. stands on a higher, certainly on a later, level.

    Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881

  • That the morphological conception of a Species is not a positive but only a relative conception, and that it has no other absolute or positive value than those other similar system-categories -- sports, varieties, races, tribes, families, classes -- is now acknowledged by every systematiser who forms an honest and unprejudiced judgment of the practical systematic distinction of species.

    Freie wissenschaft und freie lehr. English Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

  • Al-Khalil, the systematiser, found in general use only five Dáirah (circles, classes or groups of metre); and he characterised the harmonious and stately measures, all built upon the original Rajaz, as Al -

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • The popular instinct has long ago seen that the vital thing is the _matter_ -- that it is profanity to call that "poetry" which is only verse; it remains to be recognised that even the distinction of form rests only on the non-recognition of the rhythm of "prose," -- a rhythm that is not metre in so far as metre has the sense of regular measure, but may for all that have laws of its own, which await the discoverer and the systematiser.

    Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895

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