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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Methodic \Me*thod"ic\, Methodical \Me*thod"ic*al\, adjective [L. methodicus, Gr. ?: cf. F. m['e]thodique.]
1. Arranged with regard to method; disposed in a suitable manner, or in a manner to illustrate a subject, or to facilitate practical observation; well-ordered; as, the methodical arrangement of arguments; a methodical treatise. [WordNet sense 2] ''Methodical regularity.'' --Addison.
2. Proceeding with regard to method; characterized by method or orderliness; systematic; as, a methodical investigation. [WordNet sense 1] ''Aristotle, strict, methodic, and orderly.'' --Harris.
3. Of or pertaining to the ancient school of physicians called methodists. --Johnson. -- {Me*thod"ic*al*ly}, adverb -- {Me*thod"ic*al*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
methodical
adjective: characterized by method and orderliness; "a methodical scholar"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
81 Moby Thesaurus words for "methodical": accordant, alike, analytical, arranged, automatic, balanced, businesslike, careful, consistent, consonant, constant, continuous, correspondent, deliberate, disciplined, equable, equal, even, exact, flat, formal, habitual, harmonious, homogeneous, immutable, in hand, invariable, labored, laborious, level, logical, measured, mechanical, methodic, methodized, meticulous, monolithic, neat, normal, of a piece, ordered, orderly, organized, paced, painstaking, persistent, plodding, precious, precise, precisian, precisionist, punctilious, puristic, regular, regular as clockwork, robotlike, routine, scrupulous, smooth, stable, steadfast, steady, structured, symmetrical, systematic, systematized, tidy, unbroken, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, undeviating, undifferentiated, undiversified, uniform, unruffled, unvaried, unvarying, usual, well-ordered, well-regulated
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