名詞 methodist:

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

形容詞 methodist:

1. of or pertaining to or characteristic of the branch of Protestantism adhering to the views of Wesley
   同義詞：Wesleyan

1. The twelve presidents who held office from1890 to1963 represented religious denominations as follows: two Methodists, two Presbyterians, two Baptists, one Unitarian, one Dutch Reformed, one Congregationalist, one Quaker, one Episcopalian, and one Roman Catholic.
   從1890年到1963年任職的十二位總統(tǒng)所屬的教派如下：兩位衛(wèi)理公會教徒，兩位長老會教徒，兩位浸禮會教徒，一位唯一神派教徒，一位荷蘭新教徒，一位公理會教徒，一位公誼會教徒，一位圣公會教徒，一位羅馬天主教徒。
2. A Nonconformist chapel, especially a Baptist or Methodist one.
   非英國國教的禮拜堂基督新教徒的教堂，尤指浸信會或衛(wèi)理公會教徒
3. In the mid-twentieth century two-thirds of all church members in the United States belonged to three different churches: Roman Catholic, Baptist, and Methodist.
   在二十世紀中葉，美國三分之二的教徒屬于三個不同的教會：羅馬天主教會、浸禮會和衛(wèi)理公會。
4. The church has become a social as well as a religious force in the community, but community life is not broken up into Presbyterian, Methodist, Lutheran, Roman Catholic, and Jewish groups.
   在社會上，教會不僅是一種宗教力量，而且也是一種社會力量，但長老會、衛(wèi)理公會、路德會、羅馬天主教會和猶太教會等教派教徒在社會生活中并不各成體系。

Meth.od.ist

n.（名詞）
A member of an evangelical Protestant church founded on the principles of John and Charles Wesley in England in the early 8th century and characterized by active concern with social welfare and public morals.
循道宗信徒：基督教新教路德教會的成員，此教會建立在英格蘭的約翰和查爾斯·衛(wèi)斯理在8世紀初期提出的原則之上，以積極關(guān)心社會福利和公眾道德為特點
methodist One who emphasizes or insists on systematic procedure.
methodist 照章辦事者：過分強調(diào)或堅持方法步驟的人

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Meth.odis.tic
adj.（形容詞）