With these expurgated it confirms the admirable methods inspired by its unmethodical suggestions.

Irregularity of recurrence N. irregularity, uncertainty, unpunctuality; fitfulness &c adj.; capriciousness, ecrhythmus^. Adj. irregular, uncertain, unpunctual, capricious, desultory, fitful, flickering; rambling, rhapsodical; spasmodic; immethodical^, unmethodical, variable.

(2) In the nineteenth century the discoveries of science in many fields bore with full force upon fabrics which had been constructed in a naïve and ignorant age; and historical criticism undermined methodically the authority of the sacred documents which had hitherto been exposed chiefly to the acute but unmethodical criticisms of common sense.

From all which Tom gathered a tolerably clear notion of the poor poet's state of body and mind; as a self-indulgent, unmethodical person, whose ill-temper was owing partly to perpetual brooding over his own thoughts, and partly to dyspepsia, brought on by his own effeminacyin both cases, not a thing to be pitied or excused by the hearty and valiant Doctor.

He, though neither extravagant nor profligate, was, like most literary men who are accustomed to live from hand to mouth, careless, self-indulgent, unmethodical.

Or if you take any carelessly-constructed sentence of any unpolished orator, and reduce it into proper shape, by making a slight alteration in the order of his words, then that will be made harmonious which was before loose and unmethodical Come now, take a sentence from the speech of Gracchus before the censors: "Obesse non potest, quin ejusdem hominis sit, probos improbare, qui improbos probet.

The true or scientific induction thus inculcated is quite different from the credulous induction of common life or the unmethodical induction of Aristotle.

The one is cool, thorough, cautious, methodical to the point of pedantry; the other is passionate, ingenious, unmethodical to the point of capricious dilettantism.

He does not merely quote or cite all the passages which he has noticed in which legal terms occur, but brings together all such as contain the same terms or refer to kindred proceedings or instruments; and he thus presents his case with much more compactness and consequent strength than results from Lord Campbell's loose and unmethodical mode of treating the subject.

It is the way of these unmethodical Powers to produce unexpected, vaguely formulated, and yet effective cerebral actionapparently from their backbones.

He is a studious, unmethodical, untidy man.

He was so unmethodical that he never even looked into her account book, deciding that it was uninteresting and not worth while.

'Le Beylisme' is certainly not susceptible of any exact definition; its author was too capricious, too unmethodical, in spite of his lo-gique, ever to have framed a coherent philosophy; it is essentially a thing of shreds and patches, of hints, suggestions, and quick visions of flying thoughts.