Of or pertaining to system; consisting in system; methodical; formed with regular connection and adaptation or subordination of parts to one another and to the design of the whole: as, a systematic arrangement of plants or animals; a systematic course of study.Proceeding according to system or regular method; with intention; formal: as, a systematic writer.Of or pertaining to the system of the universe; cosmical.Classificatory; taxonomic; marked by, based on, or agreeable with any system of classification or nomenclature: as, a systematic treatise; systematic principles or practice; systematic zoölogy or botany. See system, 11.In ancient prosody, of or pertaining to a system, or group of periods; constituting systems, or composed of systems.