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To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter; -- in this sense used chiefly in the past participle.

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  1. v. t. To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter; -- in this sense used chiefly in the past participle.
  2. v. t. To arrange or constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize; to get into working order; -- applied to products of the human intellect, or to human institutions and undertakings, as a science, a government, an army, a war, etc.
  3. v. t. To sing in parts; as, to organize an anthem.
  4. v. create (as an entity)
  5. v. cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea
  6. v. plan and direct (a complex undertaking)
  7. v. bring order and organization to
  8. v. arrange by systematic planning and united effort
  9. v. form or join a union
  10. 1. (Biol.) To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter; -- in this sense used chiefly in the past participle. These nobler faculties of the mind, matter organized could never produce. Ray. 2. To arrange or constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize; to get into working order; -- applied to products of the human intellect, or to human institutions and undertakings, as a science, a government, an army, a war, etc. This original and supreme will organizes the government. Cranch. 3. (Mus.) To sing in parts; as, to organize an anthem. [R.] Busby.
  11. To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; toendow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organizedbeing; organized matter; -- in this sense used chiefly in the pastparticiple.These nobler faculties of the mind, matter organized could neverproduce. Ray.
  12. v:100 v. cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea v. bring order and organization to v. arrange by systematic planning and united effort