μεθοδ-εύω,
aorist with double augment ἐμεθώδευσα [[ 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 8.83 ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]: perfect passive μεμεθώδευμαι [[ 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 1325.32 ] Refs]: (μέθοδος):—treat or practise by rule or method, τέχνην [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.31 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus cited in 4th c.AD: Eusebius Caesariensis Scriptor Ecclesiasticus “Praeparatio Evangelica” 8.14, compare 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Thucydide” 19, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 1.15 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐκ τῆς ἐμπειρίας μ.[[ [prev. work] 81; τέχνας 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 2.28 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]:—passive, [[ 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.212. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__2 deal with, i.e. remove, avert an impending misfortune, [[ “PMag.Leid.W.” 16.13. ] Refs]
__3 with accusative person, defraud, 'get round', [[ 6th c.AD: Justinianus Imperator “Novellae” 115.5.1 ] Refs 6th c.AD+]:—passive,[[ [prev. work] 124.3; γυνὴ -εύεται ἐπαίνοις 2nd c.AD(?): Charito Scriptor Eroticus 7.6 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—absolutely in active, employ craft, [[ LXX.2Ki.19.27 ] LXX]:—in middle, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 38.12.10, 4th c.BC: Arg. Demosthenes Orator 47. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__4 in Medicine texts, treat, 'doctor', in passive, [[ 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus “fragment” 74, 7th c.AD: Paulus Aegineta Medicus 6.26: _metaphorically_, πᾶς λίβανος δολοῦται τῇ.. ῥητίνῃ -ευομένῃ] Refs 4th c.AD+] (variant -ευόμενος) [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.68. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]