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methodic, a. and n. Obs. exc. Hist.|mɪˈθɒdɪk|
Also 6 -yke.
[ad. late L. methodic-us, a. Gr. µεθοδικ-ός, f. µέθοδος method: see -ic and cf. F. méthodique (16th c.).]
A. adj.
†1. The distinctive epithet of one of the three ancient schools of physicians, holding views intermediate between those of the Dogmatic and the Empiric school.
1541R. Copland Galyen's Terap. 2 B iv, After the sentence of the Methodyke secte. 1701Grew Cosm. Sacra iv. viii. 266 Thessalus, the Head of the Methodick Sect in the Reign of Nero. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 156 ⁋1 Every animal body, according to the methodick physicians, is, by the predominance of some exuberant quality, continually declining towards disease and death.
2. = methodical a. in various senses: pertaining to method; constructed, performed, or carried on in accordance with method; rarely of persons, observant of method, characterized by regularity of procedure.
1620K. James Let. to Bacon 16 Oct. in Resuscitatio (1657) ii. 83 You could not have made choice of a Subject more befitting..your universal, and Methodick, Knowledge. 1663J. Spenser Prodigies (1665) 137 Some native and methodick powers, and springs of motion in things. 1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. iii. x. 104 There is no piece of Pagan Oratorie so methodic and harmonious, as sacred Scriptures. 1729T. Cooke Tales, etc. 120 When was I known basely to court the Schools, Or not to rail at dull Methodic Fools..? 1869Seeley Lect. & Ess. i. 17 The nation which..by methodic study and science of destruction, had crushed all the surrounding nationalities. 1886F. H. Burnett Little Ld. Fauntleroy x, It was as unlike the methodic old lawyer to be agitated..as it was to be late.
3. Theatr. (See method n. 2 e.) rare.
B. n.
1. Hist. A physician of the ‘methodic’ school; = methodist 1.
1541R. Copland Galyen's Terap. 2 G j, That is to wyt the indycacyon yt is taken of the myghtynes of the dysease, which the Methodykes onely haue nat left..but also dyuers of the racyonalles, & Emperykes. 1659Macallo Can. Physick i. 1 The Methodick practizing in Physick hath, First, a knowledge of the Disease: next, foretelleth the event of it: and last, goeth about to cure the same. 1771T. Percival Ess. (1777) I. 25 Themison..founded a new sect called the Methodics. a1790W. Cullen Hist. Med. Wks. 1828 I. 383 This easy plan was..called the Method, and the persons who followed it the Methodics. 1864Chambers's Encycl. VI. 385/2 During the greater part of the first two centuries of our era, the Methodics were the preponderating medical sect.
2. pl.
a. The science of method; methodology. (Ogilvie 1882, and later Dicts.)
Webster 1864 has the sing. in this sense.
b. esp. in the teaching of languages.
1962P. Strevens Papers in Lang. (1965) v. 70 This organizational framework for arranging linguistic terms into a teachable pattern is known in Britain as Methodics. 1964New Statesman 6 Mar. 378/1 (Advt.), Applications are invited for a post as Lecturer in the methodics of language teaching. 1964M. A. K. Halliday et al. Ling. Sci. x. 200 Methodics is a framework of organization for practical language teaching, in which pedagogical techniques and linguistic theory cross-fertilize each other. |