Verb

(methodiz)

To reduce to method or order; to arrange in an orderly or systematic manner.

(obsolete) To make someone orderly or methodical.

(obsolete) To convert someone to Methodism.

(obsolete) To talk Methodistically.

To perform a theatrical role in accordance with the principles of method acting.

Verb

(arrang)

To set up, to organize, especially in a positive manner.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].}}

To put in order, to organize.

To plan; to prepare in advance.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=It had been arranged as part of the day's programme that Mr. Cooke was to drive those who wished to go over the Rise in his new brake.}}

(label) To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original form.