systematize

Verb
Synonyms: systematisesystemizesystemise

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Verb (1)systematized, systematizing

  1. arrange according to a system or reduce to a system“systematize our scientific knowledge”Synonyms: systematisesystemizesystemiseMore general orderMore specific codify, digest

Related words rationalization noun, systematizer noun

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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Sys′tem·a·tize transitive verb [past tense & past participle Systematized; present participle & verbal noun Systematizing.]

Origin: 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.

Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine and architecture were systematized into arts.— James Harris

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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