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Definition of Eclectic method

1. Noun. Making decisions on the basis of what seems best instead of following some single doctrine or style.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eclectic Method

Literary usage of Eclectic method

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Theology as an Empirical Science by Douglas Clyde Macintosh (1919)
"Such a way of constructing a theology we may call the eclectic method. ... In its simplest form, however, the eclectic method has tended to appear whenever ..."

2. Methods of Instruction by James Pyle Wickersham (1865)
"The method thus formed may be called the eclectic method. Some repetition may be necessary in describing it, A word is the simplest subdivision of ..."

3. Pictorial History of the Russian War 1854-5-6 by George Dodd (1856)
"... and, proceeding on an eclectic method, culled from each whatever appeared most likely to be practically available for his own country. ..."

4. Primary Methods by Sarah E. Sprague, Jessica Eades Marshall, Edith L. Virden, Mary Reid Pierce (1906)
"... must be taught to pronounce now words for himself and because he cannot recognize long sentences as wholes. (e) THE COMBINATION OR eclectic method. ..."

5. The Development of Theology in Germany Since Kant: And Its Progress in Great by Otto Pfleiderer (1890)
"... and hence we regard the eclectic method of philosophising, which tries to combine thoughts derived from various quarters, as defective. ..."

6. Spanish in the High Schools: A Handbook of Methods with Special Reference to by Lawrence Augustus Wilkins (1918)
"Would it not be the eclectic method, if name it we must, the method that takes good things ... But this eclectic method should not be allowed to run riot. ..."

7. The Indiana School Journal by Indiana State Teachers Association (1883)
"This method, composed of selected steps or processes from the three, may be called the eclectic method. The eclectic method, then, has three phases, ..."

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