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Meth·od·ist (-dist)

noun

  1. a member of any branch of a Protestant Christian denomination that developed from the evangelistic teachings and work of John and Charles Wesley, George Whitefield, and others in the early 18th cent.: so called from the methodical study and worship practiced by the founders in their “Holy Club” at Oxford University (1729)
  2. Rare one who strictly adheres to method

adjective

of or characteristic of the Methodists or Methodism
also Methodistic Meth′·od·is′·tic

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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