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Methodistic
Variant of Methodist
noun
- 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)
- Rare one who strictly adheres to method
adjective
of or characteristic of the Methodists or Methodism
also Methodistic
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