METHODICALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does methodically mean? 

• METHODICALLY (adverb)
  The adverb METHODICALLY has 1 sense:

1. in a methodical manner

  Familiarity information: METHODICALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• METHODICALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a methodical manner

Context example:

she worked methodically

Pertainym:

methodical (characterized by method and orderliness)

 Context examples 

The activity or result of distributing or disposing of things properly or methodically.

(Organization, NCI Thesaurus)

Swiftly and methodically Holmes turned over the contents of drawer after drawer and cupboard after cupboard, but no gleam of success came to brighten his austere face.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This is what I said, the purport of it; but, as you may imagine, not spoken so collectedly or methodically as I have repeated it to you.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Yet he never turned his head, plodding straight onward, slowly and methodically, as though possessed of no interest in what was occurring behind his back.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“Off the Farallones, heading about sou-west,” he answered, slowly and methodically, as though groping for his best English, and rigidly observing the order of my queries.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

You can handle competition—indeed, your evolving success will feel exciting as you methodically grasp each goal, even the ones you have had to fend off others to achieve.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He went nowhere, save to the pawnbroker, took no exercise, and ate methodically when he was hungry and had something to cook, and just as methodically went without when he had nothing to cook.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was very hard, but I turned back, though with a heavy heart, and began laboriously and methodically to plod over the same tedious ground at a snail's pace; stopping to examine minutely every speck in the way, on all sides, and making the most desperate efforts to know these elusive characters by sight wherever I met them.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I have said that he is the worst man in London, and I would ask you how could one compare the ruffian, who in hot blood bludgeons his mate, with this man, who methodically and at his leisure tortures the soul and wrings the nerves in order to add to his already swollen money-bags?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A sailor, from time to time and quite methodically, as a matter of routine, dropped a canvas bucket into the ocean at the end of a rope, hauled it in hand under hand, and sluiced its contents over the prostrate man.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)