| systematical | 1. 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." (I. Watts) "A representation of phenomena, in order to answer the purposes of science, must be systematic." (Whewell) 2. Proceeding according to system, or regular method; as, a systematic writer; systematic benevolence. 3. Pertaining to the system of the world; cosmical. "These ends may be called cosmical, or systematical." (Boyle) 4. <medicine> Affecting successively the different parts of the system or set of nervous fibres; as, systematic degeneration. Systematic theology. See Theology. Origin: Gr., cf. F. Systematique. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| systematised delusion | A delusion that is logically constructed from a false premise and embraces a specific sector of the patient's life. (05 Mar 2000) |
| systematised nevus | A developmental dysplasia of the skin; extensive, patterned, and usually unilateral. (05 Mar 2000) |
| systematization | The arrangement of ideas into orderly sequence. (05 Mar 2000) |
| systematize | To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. "Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine and architecture were systematized into arts." (Harris) Origin: Cf. F. Systematiser. Cf. Systemize. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| systematology | <study> The doctrine of, or a treatise upon, systems. Origin: Gr, system. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |