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systematic |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Systematic \Sys`tem*at"ic\, Systematical \Sys`tem*at"ic*al\, a. [Gr. ?: cf F. syst['e]matique.] 1. 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 systematical learning; whereas our fathers had a just value for regularity and systems. --I. Watts. A representation of phenomena, in order to answer the purposes of science, must be systematic. --Whewell. 2. Proceeding according to system, or regular method; as a systematic writer; systematic benevolence. 3. Pertaining to the system of the world; cosmical. These ends may be called cosmical, or systematical. --Boyle. 4. (Med.) Affecting successively the different parts of the system or set of nervous fibres; as systematic degeneration. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: systematic adj 1: characterized by order and planning; "the investigation was very systematic"; "a systematic administrator" [ant: {unsystematic}] 2: not haphazard; "a series of orderly actions at regular hours" [syn: {orderly}]
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