Systematic
[sɪstə'mætɪk] or ['sɪstə'mætɪk]
Definition
(adj.) characterized by order and planning; 'the investigation was very systematic'; 'a systematic administrator' .
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Definition
(a.) Alt. of Systematical
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Methodical, orderly, regular.
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Examples
- But there was a systematic hunt for the copies of Holy Writ, and in many places a systematic destruction of Christian churches. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I felt as if, from the order of the systematic world, I had plunged into chaos, obscure, contrary, unintelligible. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It was during this period of inventing a system that so much systematic and continuous work with good results was done by Edison in the design and perfection of dynamos. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Feudalism in its most flourishing age was anything but systematic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We continued our systematic survey of the edge of the sodden portion of the moor, and soon our perseverance was gloriously rewarded. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- We have told of the first release of human curiosity and of the beginnings of systematic inquiry and experiment. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But the factory system gathered up all this infantile toil and made it systematic, conspicuous, and scandalous. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They removed their prisoner to the ground and then commenced a systematic rifling of the vessel. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Great rearrangements are necessary, and a systematic legal subordination of personal self-seeking to the public good. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To repay my confidence with systematic deception, for her sake, and quit me for her! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- A habit formed in this way is difficult to overcome, and many a child when scarcely over its babyhood had a craving which in later years may lead to systematic drug taking. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- By the term systematic affinity is meant, the general resemblance between species in structure and constitution. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It encountered considerable hostility, and at last systematic attempts to suppress it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The visits of these latter machines to London and the east of England became systematic after the summer of 1917. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But a slave-trade, as systematic as ever was carried on on the coast of Africa, is an inevitable attendant and result of American slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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