methodized

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Since the death of Priscillian, the rude attempts of persecution have been refined and methodized in the holy office, which assigns their distinct parts to the ecclesiastical and secular powers.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 by Milman, Henry Hart

All this appeared to me, I own, methodized madness.

From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

The old States, methodized by orders, settled the more ancient.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

At his command, the historical examples of vice and virtue were methodized in fifty-three books, and every citizen might apply, to his contemporaries or himself, the lesson or the warning of past times.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Milman, Henry Hart

Those rules, of old discovered, not devised, Are nature still, but nature methodized; Nature, like liberty, is but restrained By the same laws which first herself ordained.

From An Essay on Criticism by Pope, Alexander