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  • verb Alternative spelling of systematize.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb arrange according to a system or reduce to a system

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Examples

  • Kate Watkins, director of the Welsh NHS Employers Unit, says PSMW's innovation has been to systematise the process, training mentors to a common standard.

    How to prevent a haemorrhage in corporate wisdom 2011

  • Richard Rorty characterises 20th century philosophy as a distinction between those that 'edify' and those that 'systematise'.

    [philosophy] otherwise known as sophistry 2009

  • Beginning with Shakespeare, however, a parallel literary tradition serves not to systematise, but to problematise the discourses used to assert the legitimacy with which control over law and government is exercised.

    Heinze on Law and English Literature Dan Ernst 2009

  • He began to make notes in his diary; it would help, he thought, to understand exactly what was happening, systematise it a little.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • He began to make notes in his diary; it would help, he thought, to understand exactly what was happening, systematise it a little.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • He began to make notes in his diary; it would help, he thought, to understand exactly what was happening, systematise it a little.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • It is only the pressure to systematise that leads us to infer that, if it is X's particular obligation in S to φ, then this must be because there is a general obligation, on any

    Bernard Williams Chappell, Timothy 2006

  • Edward at length retired, his mind agitated by a variety of new and conflicting feelings, which detained him from rest for some time, in that not unpleasing state of mind in which fancy takes the helm, and the soul rather drifts passively along with the rapid and confused tide of reflections than exerts itself to encounter, systematise, or examine them.

    Waverley 2004

  • Europe is only beginning to systematise the adhibition of air, exercise, and simple living.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • In physics, though, we try to systematise and to find as many general concepts as possible.

    Forces 2001

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