methodizing, ppl. a.
(ˈmɛθədaɪzɪŋ)
[-ing2.]
1. That methodizes.
| 1832 Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. V. 412 Hume has the widest, methodising, comprehensive eye. 1902 J. H. Rose Napoleon I, I. xii. 284 This methodizing genius. |
2. Inclined to Methodism.
| 1820 Southey Wesley II. 396 The greater part of the methodizing clergy adhered to Lady Huntingdon's party in the dispute. 1842 Whately Let. in Life (1866) II. 6 A Methodising sailor might call it the log-book of a voyage to heaven. |