Definition of "methodical"

methodical

adjective
comparative more methodical, superlative most methodical
1. In an organized manner; proceeding with regard to method; systematic.
2. Arranged with regard to method; disposed in a suitable manner, or in a manner to illustrate a subject, or to facilitate practical observation.
  Quotations
  […] methodical regularity which would have been requisite in a prose author.
  1711 December 31 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “THURSDAY, December 20, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 253; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853