METHODIST Definition & Meaning

Methodist

[meth-uh-dist]

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noun

a member of the largest Christian denomination that grew out of the revival of religion led by John Wesley: stresses both personal and social morality and has an Arminian doctrine and, in the U.S., a modified episcopal polity.
(lowercase)��a person who relies greatly or excessively on methods or a particular method.

adjective

Also Methodistic, Methodistical. of or relating to the Methodists or Methodism.

Methodist

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noun

a member of any of the Nonconformist denominations that derive from the system of faith and practice initiated by John Wesley and his followers

adjective

of or relating to Methodism or the Church embodying it (the Methodist Church )

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Other 51�Թ� Forms

anti-Methodist adjective
Methodistically adverb
non-Methodist noun
non-Methodistic adjective
pre-Methodist adjective
pro-Methodist adjective
pseudo-Methodist adjective
ˌ�ѱ�ٳ�ǻ�ˈ��پ�� adverb

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of Methodist¹

First recorded in 1585–95; method + -ist

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Martinez helped to carry Baker’s casket and spoke movingly at his memorial service at Woodland Hills United Methodist Church.

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Francis worked with Anglicans, Lutherans and Methodists and persuaded the Israeli and Palestinian presidents to join him to pray for peace.

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Then, with the help of her Methodist minister father, the muses steered her to playing in nightclubs by the time she was a young teenager.

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Ali had been referred to Prevent seven years before he fatally stabbed Sir David 20 times at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.

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“The last month has been entirely distinctive in American history,” said Cal Jillson, a constitutional and presidential scholar at Southern Methodist University.

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