In extended use. (In quot. 1751 colloquial: = Methody, n.).
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释义 | society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Methodism > [noun] > person (8) Maccabee1647 In extended use. (In quot. 1751 colloquial: = Methody, n.). methodist1732 Christian Church. Chiefly with capital initial.(a) Originally: a member of a religious group (nicknamed ‘the Holy Club’) established at Oxford in… swaddler1747 Originally: a nickname for a Methodist, esp. a Methodist preacher, in Ireland. Now: a nickname for Protestants in general. Methody1753 = methodist, n. 1b 4(a). Bible-bigot1766 a person who is obstinately devoted to the Bible; esp. applied to the Methodists, sometimes contemptuously (cf. quot. 1820 Bible-moth n.). Bible-moth1789 exemplarist1794 A hypothetical name for: a Methodist. Obsolete. Metho1941 A member of the Methodist Church. |
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