from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
adjective Arranged or proceeding in regular, systematic order.
adjective Orderly and systematic in habits or behavior.
from The Century Dictionary.
Characterized by or exhibiting method; disposed or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: as, the methodical arrangement of objects or topics; methodical accounts; a methodical man.
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adjective in an organized manner
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adjective characterized by method and orderliness
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek μεθοδικός (methodikos, "going to work by rule, systematic, crafty"), + -al.
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LAVANDERA: We don't know who Gonzalez is talking about exactly, but investigators say they've arrested all the men who carried out what they called the methodical and chilling murders of the Billings couple.
LAVANDERA: We don't know who Gonzalez is talking about exactly, but investigators say they've arrested all the men who carried out what they called the methodical and chilling murders of the Billings couple.
LAVANDERA: We don't know who Gonzalez is talking about exactly, but investigators say they've arrested all the men who carried out what they called the methodical and chilling murders of the Billings couple.
LAVENDERA: We don't know who Gonzalez is talking about exactly but investigators they have arrested all the men who carried out what they call the methodical and chilling murders of the Billings 'couple.
An apartment complex there as well, and are going essentially house to house in what they describe as a methodical search, trying to capture the suspect.
Call for death penalty in US beauty salon shootings PROSECUTORS say they'll seek the death penalty for the man they call a "methodical and merciless killer" who stormed through a California beauty salon and killed eight people.
Southern California prosecutors said Friday they will seek the death penalty for the man they called a "methodical and merciless killer" who stormed through a salon and killed eight people.
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