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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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439 words match “METHOD”

METHOD n. 3 definitions

y procedure or process; regular manner of doing anything; hence, manner; way; mode; as, a method of teaching languages; a method of improving the mind. Addison.

METHODIC; METHODICAL a. 3 definitions

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.

The art and principles of method.

The system of doctrines, polity, and worship, of the sect called Methodists. Bp. Warburton.

METHODIST n. 5 definitions

One who observes method. [Obs.]

METHODISTIC; METHODISTICAL a.

Of or pertaining to methodists, or to the Methodists. -- Meth`o*dis"tic*al*ly, adv.

METHODIZATION n.

The act or process of methodizing, or the state of being methodized.

To reduce to method; to dispose in due order; to arrange in a convenient manner; as, to methodize one's work or thoughts. Spectator.

One who methodizes.

METHODOLOGICAL a.

Of or pertaining to methodology.

The science of method or arrangement; a treatise on method. Coleridge.

One without method; a quack. [Obs.]

CASCADE METHOD n.

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 a.

Not methodical; without method or systematic arrangement; without order or regularity; confused. Addison.

IMMETHODICALLY adv.

Without method; confusedly; unsystematically.

IMMETHODICALNESS n.

Want of method.

To render immethodical; to destroy the method of; to confuse. [R.]

MONTESSORI METHOD n.

apparatus," which is declared to be "auto-regulative." Most of the chief features of the method are borrowed from current methods used in many institutions for training feeble-minded children, and dating back especially to the work of the French-American physician Edouard O. Seguin (1812- 80).

SENTENCE METHOD n.

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.

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.