单词 | methodistic |
释义 | Methodisticadj. Now rare. Of, designating, characteristic of, or relating to Methodists or their beliefs, methods, Church, etc. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Methodism > [adjective] Methodistical1746 swaddling1747 methodist1751 Methodistic1788 Methody1794 methodizing1820 connexional1838 shouting1851 1788 T. Dwight Triumph of Infidelity 30 That strange new-birth, that methodistic grace. 1789 J. Wolcot Tithe Rencounter x. 1 Some Presbyterian rabble..Or some fierce Methodistic drabble. 1791 J. Hampson Mem. J. Wesley II. 3 His first labours in the methodistic vineyard. 1811 Ld. Byron Hints from Horace 31 Then spare our stage, ye methodistic men! 1820 R. Polwhele in Lavington's Enthus. Meth. & Papists Introd. 203 A further specimen of methodistic cant on the subject of inspiration. 1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 142/2 [The candidate for admission as a minister] undergoes an examination as to his personal acquaintance with Christianity, his Methodistic orthodoxy, and attachment to its discipline. 1857 Christian Misc. Feb. 36 We are..warranted in forming some estimate of the probable character of the ‘Methodistic year’ 1856–7. a1861 A. H. Clough Dipsychus i. iv, in Lett. & Remains (1865) 162 I recognise, and kiss the rod—The methodistic ‘voice of God’. 1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience iv. 109 The history of Lutheran salvation by faith, of methodistic conversions. 1972 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 59 336 Presbyterianism in the eastern centers succumbed to a newer and semi-Methodistic revivalism.] This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1788 |
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