Methodist
['meθədɪst]
Definition
(noun.) a follower of Wesleyanism as practiced by the Methodist Church.
(adj.) of or pertaining to or characteristic of the branch of Protestantism adhering to the views of Wesley; 'Methodist theology' .
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Definition
(n.) One who observes method.
(n.) One of an ancient school of physicians who rejected observation and founded their practice on reasoning and theory.
(n.) One of a sect of Christians, the outgrowth of a small association called the "Holy Club," formed at Oxford University, A.D. 1729, of which the most conspicuous members were John Wesley and his brother Charles; -- originally so called from the methodical strictness of members of the club in all religious duties.
(n.) A person of strict piety; one who lives in the exact observance of religious duties; -- sometimes so called in contempt or ridicule.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the sect of Methodists; as, Methodist hymns; a Methodist elder.
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Examples
- On rising, another struck up a Methodist hymn, of which the burden was, The year of Jubilee is come,-- Return, ye ransomed sinners, home. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Did you see me play the methodist parson, in a tub, at Mrs. Beaumont's masquerade last Thursday? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Tom's Methodist hymn-book, which, in his hurry, he had forgotten, he now held up and turned over. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- How I hate these cursed Methodist hymns! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Tom began a Methodist hymn. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- That was very brutal, I think, said Dorothea Well, now, it seemed rather black to me, I confess, in a Methodist preacher, you know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And that Methodist milksop of an eldest son looks to Parliament, continued Mr. Crawley, after a pause. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Tom Sheridan would have liked to have copied it, when he played the methodist in a tub, at Mrs. Beaumont's masquerade. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Amen, was the murmured response from the lips of Tom and Mammy, and some of the elder ones, who belonged to the Methodist church. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The mulatto woman was a member of the Methodist church, and had an unenlightened but very sincere spirit of piety. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The methodists, without half the learning of the dissenters, are much more in vogue. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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