unmethodizedadj.n.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈmɛθədʌɪzd/, U.S. /ˌənˈmɛθəˌdaɪzd/ A. adj.
Not reduced to method or order; not methodically or systematically arranged.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > [adjective] > lacking system or method > not reduced to system or method
unmethodized1649
unsystematized1832
unformulated1866
1649 [see unmethodizedness n. at Derivatives].
1650 J. Hall Grounds Monarchy i. 42 The understandings of most men..seem to flee to some generall Maximes (yet unpolished, unnumbered, and unmethodized [printed unmethodixed]).
1734 Ld. Hervey Mem. (1848) I. 400 The loose, unmethodized, and often incoherent manner, in which it is put together.
1767 G. Canning Appeal to Publick 17 I ask pardon of the Publick for troubling them with this hasty, unmethodized, and..unimportant Remonstrance.
1834 H. Taylor Philip van Artevelde ii. v. ii What is earth? A huge congestion of unmethodised matter.
1894 Bull. Amer. Acad. Med. June 489 Foundling asylums..took the place of the unmethodised charity or neglect which had previously prevailed.
1940 Art Bull. 22 261 Free converse with a living and unmethodized nature.
2008 Renaissance Q. 61 838 Its readers may have failed to transform that content into useful knowledge, a failure that is particularly noteworthy given the simple, unmethodized form.
With the and capital initial. People who have not been converted to Methodism, as a class. Obsolete.
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Methodism > [adjective] > not
unmethodized1751
1751 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. III 304 Hence they justly contemn..all the Unmethodized, as of a mean and reprobate Way.
Derivatives
ˌunˈmethodizedness n. rare the quality of being unmethodized.
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1649 W. Blith Eng. Improver To Rdr. sig. a3 Some Rudenesse, and Unmethodizednesse herein, which another Opportunity may rectify.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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