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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Methodist \Meth"o*dist\, n. [Cf. F. m['e]thodiste. See
{Method}.]
1. One who observes method. [Obs.]
2. One of an ancient school of physicians who rejected
observation and founded their practice on reasoning and
theory. --Sir W. Hamilton.
3. (Theol.) One of a sect of Christians, the outgrowth of a
small association called the ``Holy Club,'' formed at
Oxford University, A.D. 1729, of which the most
conspicuous members were John Wesley and his brother
Charles; -- originally so called from the methodical
strictness of members of the club in all religious duties.
4. A person of strict piety; one who lives in the exact
observance of religious duties; -- sometimes so called in
contempt or ridicule.
Methodist \Meth"o*dist\, a.
Of or pertaining to the sect of Methodists; as, Methodist
hymns; a Methodist elder.
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Methodist
adj : of or pertaining to or characteristic of the branch of
Protestantism adhering to the views of Wesley;
"Methodist theology" [syn: {Wesleyan}]
Methodist
n : a follower of Wesleyanism as practiced by the Methodist
Church