01 a. Of or pertaining to system; consisting in system; methodical; formed with regular connection and adaptation or subordination of parts to ea…
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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.
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Proceeding according to system, or regular method; as, a systematic writer; systematic benevolence.
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Pertaining to the system of the world; cosmical.“These ends may be called cosmical, or systematical.” — Boyle.
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Affecting successively the different parts of the system or set of nervous fibres; as, systematic degeneration.(Med.)
Phrases & compounds
Systematic theology —
See under Theology.