- 1衛理公會教徒（台灣教會名是衛理公會；較廣的系統名也說循道宗）
A Methodist is a Christian who belongs to the Methodist Church, a Protestant group that follows the teaching of John Wesley, a preacher in 18th-century England. Wesley and his friends were so regular about prayer, Bible study, and helping people that others nicknamed them “Methodists,” as if they had a method for living their faith. The joke became the real name of the church. You can use it as a noun (She is a Methodist) or as an adjective (a Methodist church, Methodist beliefs). It is an ordinary, neutral label, like Catholic or Baptist — not secret, not slang, and not an insult. In many English-speaking countries it names a large, well-known church; in Taiwan you will meet it mainly as the name of that church family.
組成method + -ist. Method is “a way of doing something”; -ist names a person who follows that way. They were called Methodists because they were so careful and regular about how they practised their faith.
同家族的字
- methodthe first piece; the nickname came from their careful ‘method’ of prayer, study, and good works
- Methodismthe church and movement that follows John Wesley’s teaching
- methodicalshares method; describes someone who does things in a careful, ordered way — the quality that first earned the nickname
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Methodistnoun/ˈmɛθədɪst/
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A member of the Methodist Church; a Wesleyan.
- The question, which visibly moved Clinton, delves into an area of the candidate’s life that is deeply personal but rarely discussed. Clinton’s friends and confidants describe the former first lady as a devout Methodist whose faith guides much of what she does.
- After years of debate, hundreds of United Methodists from all over the world gathered in St. Louis last week to settle the denomination’s stance on LGBT clergy and same-sex weddings.
Methodistadj/ˈmɛθədɪst/
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Of or pertaining to the branch of Christianity that descends from the religious societies overseen by John Wesley (1703–1791) among others.
- Clinton’s faith is something she developed as a child growing up in Park Ridge, Illinois, attending the suburb’s First Methodist Church.
methodistnoun
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One who follows a method.
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historyhuman-sciencessciencesOne who limits the domain of science to that which can be investigated using the scientific method.
- The story about Popper's actual epistemological commitments is at odds with the expectations for the father of the natural scientific method, the one revered by those who swear by their datasets as well as reviled as a banal "methodist" in the well-known essay by political theorist Sheldon Wolin:
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