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Methodist

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Christianity
Meth·o·dist /ˈmeθədɪst/ noun [countable]  RRCsomeone who belongs to a Christian religious group that follows the ideas of John Wesley 〔遵循约翰卫斯理教义的〕循道公会教徒Methodist adjective a Methodist chapel 循道公会教堂Methodism noun [uncountable]
Examples from the Corpus
MethodistA devout Calvinist Methodist and strict advocate of temperance, Davies became a patron of Nonconformist and other charitable and educational causes.The Primitive Methodist chapel was built in 1837 and then rebuilt on the same site in 1877.Across boundaries of North and South, Methodists were supposed to be united and interconnected through their Discipline.The Baptists, for instance, abandoned their sectarianism, and the Methodists their Anglican heritage.She had once been a warm Methodist and so too, probably, had been most of her followers.When Methodists and Baptists debated the different ways to baptize, slaves turned out to cheer for their own sides.
Meth·o·dist nounChineseSyllable
religious to Corpus group that who someone follows a belongs Christian


Methodist
Methodist /ˈmeθədəst, ˈmeθədɪst/ noun [countable]
someone who belongs to a Christian religious group that follows the ideas of John Wesley
—Methodist adjective:
    a Methodist chapel
—Methodism noun [uncountable]


Meth·od·istBrE /ˈmeθədɪst/ 🔊NAmE /ˈmeθədɪst/ 🔊 nouna member of a Christian Protestant Church that broke away from the Church of England in the 18th century 循道宗信徒(18 世纪从英国国教分离出的基督教新教教徒) Meth·od·ism BrE /ˈmeθədɪzəm/ 🔊NAmE /ˈmeθədɪzəm/ 🔊 noun [uncountable] Meth·od·ist adjectivea Methodist church/preacher 循道宗教会/牧师