systematizing

systematizing

1. present participle and gerund of systematize

systematizing (plural systematizings)

1. The process by which something is systematized; a systematization.
   • 1870, Francis Fisher Browne, The Western Monthly, volume 3, page 406:

     But, with the systematizings of modern commerce, these duplex operations are no longer convenient or profitable; in other words, they are rendered impossible. "Cash" is now the only recognized means of purchase […]

   • 1994, Beata Grant, “Buddhism in Eleventh-Century China”, in Mount Lu Revisited: Buddhism in the Life and Writings of Su Shih‎ (Buddhism/Chinese literature), Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 23:

     THE T’IEN-T’AI SCHOOL
     Many of Su’s closest Buddhist friends belonged to the T’ien-t’ai school of Buddhism. The man who completed the systematizing of the doctrines of the T’ien-t’ai school and is thus regarded as its founder was Chih-i (538-597), who spent most of his teaching life on Mt. T’ien-t’ai in what is today Chekiang province.