(n.) The system of doctrines, polity, and worship, of the sect called Methodists.
Example Sentences:
(1) A modification of the manual glucose oxidase-gum guaiacum method of Shipton, B., Wood, P.J.
(2) Questionnaires were used and the respondent self-designation method measured leadership.
(3) Biochemical, immunocytochemical and histochemical methods were used to study the effect of chronic acetazolamide treatment on carbonic anhydrase (CA) isoenzymes in the rat kidney.
(4) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
(5) We conclude that first-transit and blood-pool techniques are equally accurate methods for determining EF when the time-activity method of analysis is employed.
(6) The HBV infection was tested by the reversed passive hemagglutination method for the HBsAg and by the passive hemagglutination method for the anti-HBs at the time of recruitment in 1984.
(7) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
(8) A new and simple method of serotyping campylobacters has been developed which utilises co-agglutination to detect the presence of heat-stable antigens.
(9) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
(10) The highest rate of discontinuation occurred when method choice was denied in the presence of husband-wife agreement on method choice, and the lowest rate occurred when method choice was granted in the presence of such concurrence.
(11) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
(12) The preembedding method also disclosed diffuse cytosolic immunoreactivity.
(13) A simple method for ultrarapid freezing of cell cultures in monolayers was developed.
(14) Nasotracheal intubation has been well established as a method for maintaining an artificial airway in children.
(15) These results show that this method is useful in topographical evaluation of CBF changes.
(16) Analysis revealed some significant differences in the false-positive rate, depending on the test method used or virus samples evaluated.
(17) The method is based on two-dimensional scanning photon absorptiometry on the distal part of the forearm.
(18) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
(19) While stereology is the principal technique, particularly in its application to the parenchyma, other compartments such as the airways and vasculature demand modifications or different methods altogether.
(20) However, there was no consistent protocol for the method or duration of drug administration.
Methodist
Definition:
(n.) One who observes method.
(n.) One of an ancient school of physicians who rejected observation and founded their practice on reasoning and theory.
(n.) One of a sect of Christians, the outgrowth of a small association called the "Holy Club," formed at Oxford University, A.D. 1729, of which the most conspicuous members were John Wesley and his brother Charles; -- originally so called from the methodical strictness of members of the club in all religious duties.
(n.) A person of strict piety; one who lives in the exact observance of religious duties; -- sometimes so called in contempt or ridicule.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the sect of Methodists; as, Methodist hymns; a Methodist elder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Possible options for a temporary, alternative building have previously included the nearby Queen Elizabeth II building and the Central Methodist Hall.
(2) We can’t let ministers just shrug their shoulders | Peter Tatchell Read more After returning to the podium at the Methodist central hall in Westminster, he told the audience Thornberry had clearly expressed Labour’s opposition to the war in Syria and had called for an end to the conflict.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Police investigators are seen outside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church.
(4) Andrew Tyrie, the Tory MP who chairs the Treasury select committee, has described the Co-op as an organisation "run by a plastering contractor, a farmer, a telecoms engineer, a computer technician, a nurse, a Methodist minister (Paul Flowers) – and two horticulturalists".
(5) We retrospectively studied all patients who had normal coronary angiograms at The Methodist Hospital during the year 1984 (8% of all angiograms).
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Rev Clementa Pinckney speaks at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church in 2012.
(7) The relationship between fasting plasma cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations and the frequency and extensiveness of coronary artery disease (CAD) was studied in 496 subjects evaluated for chest pain by coronary arteriography at The Methodist Hospital.
(8) Wesley had consulted some sources, common sense, and his own experience, tempering those with the general principle of "doing good to all men," particularly "those who desire to live according to the gospel...." Thus, the Methodist patriarch's own formula for life had as much to do with the spread of Primitive Physick throughout eighteenth-century Britain and America as did all of the remedies and suggestions imprinted upon its pages.
(9) I argued we were going into it too quickly and too deeply, and in fact there were better ways of doing coalition.” Asked a second time at the meeting in the Methodist chapel in Penzance to confirm there would be no coalition with the Tories, he said: “I have told you: it is not going to happen.” He also predicted no party would secure an overall majority in the Commons, but it would be better for the differences between the parties to be aired in open in parliament, and not through back room deals.
(10) Investors can help them by voting for these shareholder resolutions.” The co-filers of the resolution include local authority pensions funds in the EU and US as well as UK ones, such as Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Lambeth, the Environment Agency, the Church of England and the Methodist Church.
(11) It later transpired – through documents that were apparently leaked to the press with Jobs's approval – that he had a liver transplant at the Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute in Memphis, Tennessee.
(12) A series of 14 patients treated between 1979 and 1989 at Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hospital are described.
(13) The presence of the cleric and Methodist minister the Rev Harold Good, as the IRA put their weapons beyond use, was vital in convincing those sceptical of republicans' intentions.
(14) With Methodists , Quakers, United Reformed Presbyterians and many other denominations across the UK and the world taking action on climate change by selling off their investments in coal, oil and gas, the question is how great an impact will the moral authority conferred by religious groups have?
(15) The Freetown hospital, which is not an Ebola treatment center, closed after Salia tested positive and staff are under quarantine for 21 days, the United Methodist News reported.
(16) The president of the Methodist Conference, Alison Tomlin, said: "Exaggerating benefit fraud points the finger of blame at the poor.
(17) Quakers and Unitarians already allow same-sex marriage, and the Methodist church last week agreed to revisit its stance.
(18) In Gikondo, another area of Kigali, we walked along the road surveying extensive damage to a mosque and a Methodist church from machine-gun and rocket fire.
(19) Among the list of eminent speakers on the platform at the inaugural meeting in November 1955 – at the Central Methodist hall in Westminster – was the novelist JB Priestley, Lord Pakenham (later Lord Longford, a member of the incoming Labour government in 1964, and a lifelong penal reformer), Gerald Gardiner QC (Labour’s lord chancellor from 1964-70) as Lord Gardiner, a passionate law reformer and ardent abolitionist, and CH Rolph (a prominent writer and a former inspector of police in the City of London).
(20) His father, Wilfred Paradine Frost, was a Methodist minister of Huguenot descent; David reportedly more resembled his mother Mona.