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adjective

Systematical, Systematic adj.

Of or pertaining to system; consisting in system; methodical; formed with regular connection and adaptation or subordination of parts to each other, and to the design of the whole; as, a systematic arrangement of plants or animals; a systematic course of study. "Now we deal much in essays, and unreasonably despise systematical learning; whereas our fathers had a just value for regularity and systems." "A representation of phenomena, in order to answer the purposes of science, must be systematic."

Proceeding according to system, or regular method; as, a systematic writer; systematic benevolence.

Pertaining to the system of the world; cosmical. "These ends may be called cosmical, or systematical."

(Med.) Affecting successively the different parts of the system or set of nervous fibres; as, systematic degeneration.

Systematic theology. See under Theology.

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Etymology of 'Systematic'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Systematic" Quotes from Famous Books

... really the mainspring of the whole book, and on these grounds he begs for a review in L'Avenir. The letter also contains an announcement which is interesting as a proof that two years before the date given by his sister, the idea of his great systematic work was already formulated, and that in his imagination it had assumed colossal proportions. He says: "'La Peau de Chagrin' is the formula of human life, an abstraction made from individualities, and, as M. Ballanche says, everything in it is myth and allegory. It is therefore the point of departure ...

— Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings • Mary F. Sandars

... in 67 B.C. against the pirates was but the precursor of that systematic defence which the nations of the world eventually adopted. The Hanseatic League of the cities of Northern Germany and neighboring states, no doubt, had its origin in the necessitous combination of merchants to ...

— Pirates and Piracy • Oscar Herrmann

... the men from the Flatiron were appearing, armed with such weapons as they could hastily gather. The situation was explained to them. Neighboring ranches were called up by telephone and a systematic hunt started ...

— Crooked Trails and Straight • William MacLeod Raine

... the headmaster, "that is surely improbable. Smith could scarcely have cleaned the boot on his way to my house. On one occasion I inadvertently spilt some paint on a shoe of my own. I can assure you that it does not brush off. It needs a very systematic cleaning ...

— Mike • P. G. Wodehouse

... great thing is not to be carried away by passion. We must be cold, purely intellectual. We must be thoroughly systematic. We'll begin with the torn ...

— The Island Mystery • George A. Birmingham

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