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methodical

/mɪˈθɑdɪkəl/

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What does methodical mean?

adjective

  1. In an organized manner; proceeding with regard to method; systematic.
  2. Arranged with regard to method; disposed in a suitable manner, or in a manner to illustrate a subject, or to facilitate practical observation.

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/mɪˈθɑdɪkəl/

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Everything is so close at hand, and being cramped makes one so methodical, that in the end I have been a gainer.
Charles DarwinLife and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1Project Gutenberg ebook #2087
We were working upon a methodical plan, and although our cooperators were invisible, these numbered no fewer than twelve--all of them experienced men.
Sax RohmerThe Insidious Dr. Fu ManchuProject Gutenberg ebook #173
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It is to be hoped that successive observations of a more methodical kind will gradually reinforce the accuracy of this classification of symptoms.
Enrico FerriCriminal SociologyProject Gutenberg ebook #477
Bringing the ship to anchor in such a wind in uncharted, shoal water was difficult to do in a cool and methodical manner.
Douglas, Sir MawsonThe Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914Project Gutenberg ebook #6137
This journal contains more than four thousand methodical descriptions of equinoctial plants, a ninth part only of which have been made by me.
Alexander von Humboldt; Aimé BonplandPersonal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1Translated by Thomasina RossProject Gutenberg ebook #6322