Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Systematic \Sys`tem*at"ic\, Systematical \Sys`tem*at"ic*al\, a.
[Gr. ?: cf. F. syst['e]matique.]
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. --I. Watts.
A representation of phenomena, in order to answer
the purposes of science, must be systematic.
--Whewell.
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.
--Boyle.
4. (Med.) Affecting successively the different parts of the
system or set of nervous fibres; as, systematic
degeneration.
Source : WordNet®
systematic
adj 1: characterized by order and planning; "the investigation was
very systematic"; "a systematic administrator" [ant: {unsystematic}]
2: not haphazard; "a series of orderly actions at regular
hours" [syn: {orderly}]