Word Meanings - METHODIOS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The art and principles of method.

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• METHODIST
  One of a sect of Christians, the outgrowth of a small association called the "Holy Club," formed at Oxford University, A.D. 1729, of which the most conspicuous members were John Wesley and his brother Charles; -- originally so called from
• METHOD
  Classification; a mode or system of classifying natural objects according to certain common characteristics; as, the method of Theophrastus; the method of Ray; the Linnæan method. Syn. -- Order; system; rule; regularity; way; manner; mode; course;
• METHODIZE
  To reduce to method; to dispose in due order; to arrange in a convenient manner; as, to methodize one's work or thoughts. Spectator.
• METHODIC; METHODICAL
  1. Arranged with regard to method; disposed in a suitable manner, or in a manner to illustrate a subject, or to facilitate practical observation; as, the methodical arrangement of arguments; a methodical treatise. "Methodical regularity." Addison.
• METHODIOS
  The art and principles of method.
• METHODIZER
  One who methodizes.
• METHODOLOGICAL
  Of or pertaining to methodology.
• METHODISM
  The system of doctrines, polity, and worship, of the sect called Methodists. Bp. Warburton.
• METHODISTIC; METHODISTICAL
  Of or pertaining to methodists, or to the Methodists. -- Meth`o*dis"tic*al*ly, adv.
• METHODIZATION
  The act or process of methodizing, or the state of being methodized.
• METHODOLOGY
  The science of method or arrangement; a treatise on method. Coleridge.
• IMMETHODICALLY
  Without method; confusedly; unsystematically.
• AMETHODIST
  One without method; a quack.
• WORD METHOD
  A method of teaching reading in which words are first taken as single ideograms and later analyzed into their phonetic and alphabetic elements; -- contrasted with the alphabet and sentence methods.
• MONTESSORI METHOD
  A system of training and instruction, primarily for use with normal children aged from three to six years, devised by Dr. Maria Montessori while teaching in the "Houses of Childhood" (schools in the poorest tenement districts of Rome, Italy), and
• SENTENCE METHOD
  A method of teaching reading by giving first attention to phrases and sentences and later analyzing these into their verbal and alphabetic components; -- contrasted with alphabet and word methods.
• IMMETHODICALNESS
  Want of method.
• IMMETHODIZE
  To render immethodical; to destroy the method of; to confuse.
• CASCADE METHOD
  A method of attaining successively lower temperatures by utilizing the cooling effect of the expansion of one gas in condensing another less easily liquefiable, and so on.
• IMMETHODICAL
  Not methodical; without method or systematic arrangement; without order or regularity; confused. Addison. Syn. -- Irregular; confused; disoderly; unsystematic; desultory.