a. (UN-1 7.)
1601. Cornwallis, Ess., II. l. N n 7. They are unmethodicall, hardly to be caught by one forme, any in truth wil do it.
c. 1720. W. Gibson, Diet Horses, xi. (1731), 165. The … Instructions … are so obscure and un-methodical, that it is not an easy matter to follow them.
1862. Lytton, Str. Story, II. 62. When I saw her … smoothing his papers (in which he was apt to be unmethodical).
1869. Rogers, Smith’s Wealth N., I. Pref. p. xxiv. The resources and defects of vast but unmethodical learning.
1872. Liddon, Elem. Relig., i. 28. Its form is of necessity unmethodical: it is, if you will, anti-scholastic.
So Unmethodically adv.
1632. Massinger & Field, Fatal Dowry, IV. i. What fouler obiect in the world, then to see … a hopefull Cheualier vnmethodically appointed in the externall ornaments of nature?
