v. [irreg. f. SYSTEM + -IZE.] trans. = SYSTEMATIZE.
1778. [W. Marshall], Minutes Agric., Digest, 2. He continued to systemize what he thought worthy of his System.
1828–32. Webster.
1846. Worcester, Systemize, to systematize. Hiley. A word rarely used by good writers.
1908. Westm. Gaz., 27 June, 13/2. Learning made easy and systemised from thirty years’ experience.
Hence Systemized ppl. a., Systemizing vbl. sb. and ppl. a.; also Systemization, systematization; Systemizer, a systematizer.
1835. I. Taylor, Spir. Despot., v. 204. Nothing cou’d have prevented this systemizing of functions.
1853. Tait’s Mag., XX. 456. The improved systemization and conduct of Assurance.
1880. Ruskin, Elem. Engl. Prosody, § 8. 9. The whole subject of Prosody has been confused, and its systemization for English readers made virtually impossible, by the want of clearly understanding the difference between accent and time.
1895. Advance (Chicago), 370/3. The intellectualism of the reformers asserts itself in the systemizer of the school.
1907. R. J. Thompson, Proofs of Life after Death, 34. The amassed, severely tested and systemized knowledge that is … essential to effect a universal conviction.
