Category:Systematic

Sys`tem*at"ic, sys`tem*at"ic*al, a. [gr. 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. Now we deal much in essays, and unreasonably despise systematical Learning; whereas our fathers had a just value for regularity and Systems. I. Watts. A representation of phenomena, in order to answer the purposes of Science, must be systematic. Whewell.

2. Proceeding according to system, or regular method; as, a Systematic writer; systematic benevolence.

3. Pertaining to the system of the world; cosmical. These ends may be called cosmical, or systematical. Boyle.

4. (med.)

Defn: affecting successively the different parts of the system or set Of nervous fibres; as, systematic degeneration. Systematic theology. See under theology.