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methodism|ˈmɛθədɪz(ə)m|
In senses 1, 3 with capital initial.
[f. method n. + -ism, after next.]
1. The system of religious doctrine, practice, and organization characteristic of Methodists.
1739Wesley Wks. (1872) I. 225 The true old Christianity, which, under the new name of Methodism, is now also everywhere spoken against. 1768Whitefield Let. to Dr. Durell Wks. 1771 IV. 328 If you should desire..a definition of Methodism itself..you may easily be gratified. It is no more nor less than ‘faith working by love’. ‘A holy method of living and dying to the glory of God’. 1851Carlyle Sterling iii. iii. (1872) 190 An honest, ignorant good man, entirely given-up to Methodism.
2. Adherence to fixed methods; excessive regard for methods.
1856Chamb. Jrnl. V. 178 The Somerset House gentlemen usually introduce their official methodism at home. 1874Blackie Self-Cult. 67 Such a formal methodism of conduct springs from narrowness. 1881Liddon in Chr. World Pulpit XX. 98/1 When..habit is merely the surviving methodism or the skeleton of a life which is no more. 1885T. P. O'Connor Gladstone's Ho. Comm. 59 Sir Stafford Northcote's dull..methodism of words and thought.
3. The doctrines and practice of the ‘methodic’ school of physicians.
1896T. C. Allbutt in Classical Rev. X. 346/2 A second school was Methodism, which was satisfied to refer all symptoms and all disease to the variations of the ‘strictum’ and the ‘laxum’; that is, to the restriction or laxity of the secretions and other fluids of the body. 1958D. Guthrie Hist. Med. (rev. ed.) v. 67 This theory, known as ‘Methodism’, was elaborated by Themison (123–43 b.c.), the pupil of Asclepiades.
4. Theatr. (See method n. 2 e.) rare. |