methodize

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

METH'ODIZE, verb transitive To reduce to method; to dispose in due order; to arrange in a convenient manner. One who brings with him any observations he has made in reading the poets, will find his own reflections methodized and explained in the works of a good critic.
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