METHODIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Methodist mean? 

• METHODIST (noun)
  The noun METHODIST has 1 sense:

1. a follower of Wesleyanism as practiced by the Methodist Church

  Familiarity information: METHODIST used as a noun is very rare.

• METHODIST (adjective)
  The adjective METHODIST has 1 sense:

1. of or pertaining to or characteristic of the branch of Protestantism adhering to the views of Wesley

  Familiarity information: METHODIST used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• METHODIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A follower of Wesleyanism as practiced by the Methodist Church

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Methodist" is a kind of...):

Protestant (an adherent of Protestantism)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Methodist"):

Wesleyan (a follower of Wesleyanism)

Holonyms ("Methodist" is a member of...):

Methodist Church; Methodists (a Protestant denomination founded on the principles of John Wesley and Charles Wesley)

Derivation:

Methodism (the religious beliefs and practices of Methodists characterized by concern with social welfare and public morals)

• METHODIST (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or pertaining to or characteristic of the branch of Protestantism adhering to the views of Wesley

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

Methodist; Wesleyan

Context example:

Methodist theology

Domain category:

faith; religion; religious belief (a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny)

Pertainym:

Methodist Church (a Protestant denomination founded on the principles of John Wesley and Charles Wesley)

 Context examples 

A team at Houston Methodist Research Institute has been working to overcome the many hurdles to successful cancer treatment by harnessing nanotechnology to deliver drugs directly into cancerous cells.

(Injectable nanoparticles deliver cancer therapy in mice, NIH)

It was a sort of laugh, as she answered, 'A pretty good lecture, upon my word. Was it part of your last sermon? At this rate you will soon reform everybody at Mansfield and Thornton Lacey; and when I hear of you next, it may be as a celebrated preacher in some great society of Methodists, or as a missionary into foreign parts.'

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Dr David Meltzer, from the Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, said: A striking thing about the analysis of Spirit Cave and Lagoa Santa is their close genetic similarity which implies their ancestral population travelled through the continent at astonishing speed.

(Ancient DNA analysis unlocks secrets of Ice Age tribes in the Americas, University of Cambridge)