{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. systématique. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ] Now we deal much in essays, and unreasonably despise systematical learning; whereas our fathers had a just value for regularity and systems. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ] A representation of phenomena, in order to answer the purposes of science, must be systematic. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Proceeding according to system, or regular method; as, a systematic writer; systematic benevolence. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. Pertaining to the system of the world; cosmical. [ 1913 Webster ] These ends may be called cosmical, or systematical. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ] 4. (Med.) Affecting successively the different parts of the system or set of nervous fibres; as, systematic degeneration. [ 1913 Webster ]
Systematic theology. See under Theology. [ 1913 Webster ]
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