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/məθˈɑdəkəl/ /məθˈɑdɪkəl/ Listen

adjective

Methodical, Methodic adj.

Arranged with regard to method; disposed in a suitable manner, or in a manner to illustrate a subject, or to facilitate practical observation; well-ordered; as, the methodical arrangement of arguments; a methodical treatise. "Methodical regularity."

Proceeding with regard to method; characterized by method or orderliness; systematic; as, a methodical investigation. "Aristotle, strict, methodic, and orderly."

Of or pertaining to the ancient school of physicians called methodists.

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Etymology of 'Methodical'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Methodical" Quotes from Famous Books

... establishment Lisa went on leading the calm, methodical life which her exquisite smiles illumined. She had not accepted the pork butcher's offer at random. She reckoned upon finding a guardian in him; with the keen scent of those who are born lucky she perhaps foresaw that the gloomy shop in the Rue Pirouette would bring her the comfortable future ...

— The Fat and the Thin • Emile Zola

... In this quiet, methodical way life went on with the occupants of the saloon for some time; but at length ambition entered into and seized upon the imagination of Miss Stanhope, and she determined to learn to steer. Hour ...

— The Missing Merchantman • Harry Collingwood

... who never had a wrinkle in his duty or in his uniform; methodical with malefactors, rigid with the buttons of ...

— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo

... for a week or more, and stowed them in his knapsack. At dawn they were up, and eagerly making the final preparations. Haig and Marion, in their impatience, would have eaten nothing, but the Indian, true to his tribal habit of filling the stomach before a march, insisted that breakfast should be a methodical and leisurely business. From some recess he drew the last soup tablet, the last onion, and the last of the ground coffee, which he had clandestinely saved against this great event. The feast with which they had celebrated ...

— The Heart of Thunder Mountain • Edfrid A. Bingham

... before Ostend. Moreover, the execrable administration of his finances, and the dismal delays and sufferings of that siege; had brought about another mutiny—on the whole, the most extensive, formidable, and methodical of all that had hitherto ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

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