an orderly procedure or process; regular manner of doing anything; hence, manner; way; mode; as, a method of teaching languages; a method of improving the mind.-orderly arrangement, elucidation, development, or classification; clear and lucid exhibition; systematic arrangement peculiar to an individual.-classification; a mode or system of classifying natural objects according to certain common characteristics; as, the method of theophrastus; the method of ray; the linnaean method.