2. Hence, the whole scheme of created things regarded as forming one
complete plan of whole; the universe. "The great system of the world."
Boyle.
3. Regular method or order; formal arrangement; plan; as, to have a
system in one's business.
4. (Mus.) The collection of staves which form a full score. See Score,
n.
5. (Biol.) An assemblage of parts or organs, either in animal or plant,
essential to the performance of some particular function or functions
which as a rule are of greater complexity than those manifested by a
single organ; as, the capillary system, the muscular system, the
digestive system, etc.; hence, the whole body as a functional unity.
6. (Zoöl.) One of the stellate or irregular clusters of intimately
united zooids which are imbedded in, or scattered over, the surface of
the common tissue of many compound ascidians.
Block system, Conservative system, etc. See under Block, Conservative,
etc.
{ Sys`tem*at"ic (?), Sys`tem*at"ic*al (?), } a. [Gr. &?;: cf. F.
systématique.] 1. Of or pertaining to system; consisting in system;
methodical; formed with regular connection and adaptation or
subordination of parts to each other, and to the design of the whole;
as, a systematic arrangement of plants or animals; a systematic course
of study.
Now we deal much in essays, and unreasonably despise systematical
learning; whereas our fathers had a just value for regularity and
systems.