"One of a new kind of puritans lately arisen, so called from their profession to live by rules and in constant method" [Johnson]. Protestant religious sect founded 1729 at Oxford University by John and Charles Wesley, took that name almost from inception, but it had been used since at least 1686 for various new methods of worship. Related: Methodism.
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1. Edwards is a Methodist lay preacher and social worker.
エドワードは、在俗宣教師兼社会人としての系譜を辿っている。
2."Let us pray，"said the Methodist chaplain.
「私たちは祈りましょう」とその従道宗牧師は言った。
3.I was brought up a Methodist .
私はキリスト教の道宗の教育を受けて育った。
4.Well，a month afterwards，Mrs.Jessup and I were married in a Methodist Church.
うん、1ヶ月後、私とジェサップ夫人は衛理公会教会で結婚式を挙げた。
5.Dad，nominally a Methodist ，entered Churches only for weddings and funerals.