{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. systématique. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now we deal much in essays, and unreasonably despise systematical learning; whereas our fathers had a just value for regularity and systems. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

A representation of phenomena, in order to answer the purposes of science, must be systematic. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Proceeding according to system, or regular method; as, a systematic writer; systematic benevolence. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Pertaining to the system of the world; cosmical. [ 1913 Webster ]

These ends may be called cosmical, or systematical. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Med.) Affecting successively the different parts of the system or set of nervous fibres; as, systematic degeneration. [ 1913 Webster ]

Systematic theology. See under Theology. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a systematic manner; methodically. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The reduction of facts or principles to a system. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. systématiste. ] 1. One who forms a system, or reduces to system. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who adheres to a system. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. systématization. ] The act or operation of systematizing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Systematized p. pr. & vb. n. Systematizing ] [ Cf. F. systématiser. Cf. Systemize. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine and architecture were systematized into arts. Harris. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who systematizes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Aristotle may be called the systematizer of his master's doctrines. Harris. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, system + -logy. ] The doctrine of, or a treatise upon, systems. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]