rare. [f. SYSTEMAT-IZE + -ISM. Cf. next.] The practice of systematizing; addiction to system.
1803. Christiann Observer, II. Feb., 70/2. Sometimes from the ruling prejudices and deep-rooted systematism of the reader.
1846. W. H. Mill, Five Serm. (1848), 48. We see harmoniously combined those several aspects of the same great object, in which modern systematism sees only elements of contradiction.
1872. Lowell, Dante, Prose Wks. 1890, IV. 161. He [sc. Dante] combines the … more abstract religious sentiment of the Teutonic races with the scientific precision and absolute systematism of the Romanic.
