1772 J. Gregory Lect. Duties & Qualifications Physician (new ed.) v. 191 It has been the fate of medicine to suffer..from this rage of systemizing.

1835 I. Taylor Spiritual Despotism v. 204 Nothing cou'd have prevented this systemizing of functions.

1853 Amer. Cotton Planter Jan. 28/1 It was the systemising of these first and incidental disclosures, that led this profound thinker [sc. Euclid] through the intricacies of a thousand problems.

1906 J. A. Fairlie Local Govt. in Counties, Towns, & Villages iv. xiv. 246 The systemizing of quarantine, the preparation for epidemics,..would all have largely been left undone if it had not been for the part taken by the state.

1970 H. Bloom Yeats v. 78 It is in the next step of his systemizing of Blake, still in the section on the Covering Cherub, that Yeats allows us to find his center of vision.

2003 Guardian 17 Apr. (Life section) 6/1 They are worse at spatial aspects of systemising, relative to normal males.

1832 Day (Glasgow) 17 Feb. 161 There is a degree of love, of respect, and of honour, ever called up in our mind, to the genius of L'Epee, and to the systemising industry of Sicard.

1867 Nation 22 Aug. 144/1 The systemizing support of popular education.

1907 Bible Student & Teacher May 374/1 He fails to recognize the existence of the supreme intellectual faculty..,the constructive, or systemizing, faculty.

1952 D. Clark Charles Brockden Brown ii. 22 Charles Brockden Brown..would have profited much by the systemizing influence of a good college education.

1992 B. P. Levack Witchcraft, Women, & Society iii. 69 The specific application of the witch stereotype to the female sex was only achieved by the systemising theorists of the fifteenth century.

2006 Daily Tel. 30 Jan. 9/6 A rise in the numbers of women studying mathematics, engineering and other systemizing subjects at university, where they are more likely to come into contact with systemizing men.