methodist

methodist
noun Date: 1593 1. a person devoted to or laying great stress on method 2. capitalized a member of one of the denominations deriving from the Wesleyan revival in the Church of England, having Arminian doctrine and in the United States modified episcopal polity, and stressing personal and social morality • methodist adjective, often capitalizedmethodistic adjective

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  • Methodist — [meth′ədist] n. 1. a member of any branch of a Protestant Christian denomination that developed from the evangelistic teachings and work of John and Charles Wesley, George Whitefield, and others in the early 18th cent.: so called from the… …   English World dictionary

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  • Methodist — UK [ˈmeθədɪst] / US noun [countable] Word forms Methodist : singular Methodist plural Methodists a member of a Protestant Christian church that was formed by John Wesley in the 18th century Derived words: Methodism noun uncountable Methodist UK / …   English dictionary

  • Methodist — Me|tho|dịst 〈m. 16; Rel.〉 Anhänger, Vertreter des Methodismus * * * Me|tho|dịst, der; en, en [engl. methodist]: Mitglied einer methodistischen Kirchengemeinde. * * * Me|tho|dịst, der; en, en [engl. methodist]: Mitglied einer methodistischen… …   Universal-Lexikon

  • Methodist — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. Trinitarian, Protestant, Southern Methodist, Methodist Episcopal; see Christian , Christianity 2 , church 3 …   English dictionary for students

  • Methodist — Meth|o|dist [ˈmeθədıst] n someone who belongs to a Christian religious group that follows the ideas of John Wesley >Methodist adj ▪ a Methodist chapel >Methodism n [U] …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • Methodist — Meth·od·ist || meθədɪst n. member of the Methodist church, member of the largest Christian denomination that grew out of a revival led by John Wesley (Religion) adj. of the Methodist church …   English contemporary dictionary

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