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Capable of, or taking place by, alternate contraction and dilatation; as, the systaltic action of the heart.

A political union, confederation, or league. [R.] Burke.

nce or connection; a regular union of principles or parts forming one entire thing; as, a system of philosophy; a system of government; a system of divinity; a system of botany or chemistry; a military system; the solar system. The best way to learn any science, is to begin with a regular system, or a short and plain s…

Of or pertaining to system; consisting in system; methodical; formed with regular connection and adaptation or subordination of parts to each other, and to the design of the whole; as, a systematic arrangement of plants or animals; a systematic course of study. Now we deal much in essays, and unreasonably despise syste…

In a systematic manner; methodically.

The reduction of facts or principles to a system. Dunglison.

One who forms a system, or reduces to system.

The act or operation of systematizing.

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. Harris.…

One who systematizes. Aristotle may be called the systematizer of his master's doctrines. Harris.

The doctrine of, or a treatise upon, systems. Dunglison.

Of or relating to a system; common to a system; as, the systemic circulation of the blood.

The act or process of systematizing; systematization.

To reduce to system; to systematize.

One who systemizes, or reduces to system; a systematizer.

Being without system.

The shortening of the long syllable.

Of or pertaining to systole, or contraction; contracting; esp., ralating to the systole of the heart; as, systolic murmur. Dunglison.

A systyle temple or other edifice.

See Sith, Sithe. [Obs.] Chaucer. Piers Plowman.