Definition of "systematic"

But the systematic judgment is altogether unprofitable. Its author has not really his eye upon the professed object of his criticism at all, but upon something else, which he wants to prove by means of that object. […] As it is, all that he tells us is that he is no genuine critic, but a man with a system, an advocate.

1878 January, “A French Critic on Goethe”, in The Quarterly Review, volume 145, number 289, page 145

And Paruta’s work also suggests that Venetians in the generation following the battle of Lepanto, although without altogether abandoning systematic views, were tending increasingly to look to history for their understanding of human affairs.

1968, William J. Bouwsma, Venice and the Defense of Republican Liberty: Renaissance Values in the Age of Counter Reformation, page 219

"So soon as they've settled all our guns and ships, and smashed our railways, and done all the things they are doing over there, they will begin catching us systematic, picking the best and storing us in cages and things."

1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann

And say, when them Gogs started out to put a thing through they did it systematic and thorough.

2019, Sewell Ford, Torchy and Vee‎