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adultomorphism (medicine) and method (iou)


adultomorphism (medicine)


adultomorphism
Interpretation of children's behaviour in adult terms.


method (iou)



method noun. LME.
[Latin methodus from Greek methodos pursuit of knowledge, mode of investigation, from meta (see META-) + hodos way.]
I. Procedure for attaining an object.
The recommended or prescribed medical treatment for a specific disease. obsolete exc. as in sense 2 below. LME.
b. Hist. (Method.) The system of medicine practised by the ancient school of Methodists. LME.
A mode of procedure; a (defined or systematic) way of doing a thing, esp. (with specifying word or words) in accordance with a particular theory or as associated with a particular person. L16.
B. Jowett The theses of Parmenides are expressly said to follow the method of Zeno. Isaiah Berlin Some believe in coercion, others in gentler methods. W. S. Churchill New methods of smelting brought a tenfold increase in the output of iron. W. Raeper MacDonald followed the usual Congregational method of delivering his sermons extempore.
b. Any of various ordered sets of changes in bell-ringing. M17.
c. Theatrical. An acting theory and technique in which an actor aspires to complete emotional identification with a part. Freq. attrib. E20.
attrib.: F. Howerd Although George may only have been playing a eunuch, I nearly turned him into a method actor. K. Williams 'I suppose it's all instinct with me.' 'That is better than method acting,' said Alfred.
II. Systematic arrangement, order.
The branch of logic that deals with the description and arrangement of arguments or propositions for the investigation or exposition of a truth. M16.
Order in thinking or expressing thoughts; the orderly arrangement of ideas; gen. orderliness, regularity, or planning in doing anything. M16.
V. S. Naipaul That briefcase suggested method, steadiness, many commissions.
The order and arrangement of a literary work, speech, etc.; an author's design or plan. Long rare or obsolete. L16.
b. A written systematically-ordered collection of rules, observations, etc., on a particular subject. L16-E19.
c. The summary of the contents of a book, esp. as a list. E-M17.
d. Botany & Zoology. A scheme of classification. E-M19.
A particular orderly arrangement according to a regular plan or design. M17-M18.
Addison I would have all the knives and forks..laid in a method.
Phrases: direct method: see DIRECT adjective. method in one's madness sense or reason in what appears to be foolish or abnormal behaviour. method of exclusion(s): see EXCLUSION. method of least squares: see SQUARE noun. ORGANIZATION and methods. scientific method: see SCIENTIFIC adjective.
Comb.: methods engineer a person whose occupation is methods engineering; methods engineering the organization or improvement of business and Management methods by method study; method study, methods study the systematic study of business and Management methods with a view to increasing Efficiency.
methodless adjective E17.