mĕthŏdus

i, f.
I. a way of teaching, mode of proceeding, method (post-class.), Vitr. 1, 1, 4; Aus. Idyll. 11, 67; Cael. Aur. Tard. 2, 1, 49 (as Greek, Cels. praef. § 91); cf. methodicus.
Lewis & Short
A Latin Dictionary, 1879
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