systematics (sistematiks)

[Pl. of syste matic (see -ics).] The principles and practice of cla ification; the study of system, or the formation of any system; systematology; taxonomy. See system, 11. Huxley's cla ification, based upon these characters, in 1867, marked an epoch in the systematics of birds. Nature, XXXIX. 177. systematisation, systematise, etc. See sys tematization, etc. systematism (sis'tem-a-tizm), n. [ So also he [Dante] combines the deeper and more abstract religious sentiment of the Teutonic races with the scientific precision and absolute systematism of the Romanic. Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 37.