Systematic /(?)/

Sys·tem·at·ic

Systematic

a.
  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.
    A representation of phenomena, in order to answer the purposes of science, must be systematic.
  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.
  4. Affecting successively the different parts of the system or set of nervous fibres; as, systematic degeneration. (Med.)

Phrases & Compounds
Systematic theology
See under Theology.