Methodize and Influence
(v.t.) To reduce to method; to dispose in due order; to arrange in a convenient manner; as, to methodize one's work or thoughts.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
noun
- A power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc.
- usage: "used her parents' influence to get the job"
- Causing something without any direct or apparent effort.
- A cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do.
- usage: "her wishes had a great influence on his thinking"
- The effect of one thing (or person) on another.
- usage: "the influence of mechanical action"
- One having power to influence another.
- usage: "she was the most important influence in my life"; "he was a bad influence on the children"
verb
- Have and exert influence or effect.
- usage: "The artist's work influenced the young painter"; "She worked on her friends to support the political candidate"
- Shape or influence; give direction to.
- usage: "experience often determines ability"; "mold public opinion"
- Induce into action by using one's charm.
- usage: "She charmed him into giving her all his money"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) A flowing in or upon; influx.
- (n.) Power or authority arising from elevated station, excelence of character or intellect, wealth, etc.; reputation; acknowledged ascendency; as, he is a man of influence in the community.
- (n.) Induction.
- (n.) Hence, in general, the bringing about of an effect, phusical or moral, by a gradual process; controlling power quietly exerted; agency, force or tendency of any kind which the sun exerts on animal and vegetable life; the influence of education on the mind; the influence, according to astrologers,of the stars over affairs.
- (v.t.) To control or move by power, physical or moral; to affect by gentle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias or sway; to move; to persuade; to induce.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary