(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.
Wesleyan
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Wesley or Wesleyanism.
(n.) One who adopts the principles of Wesleyanism; a Methodist.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Wesleyan Media Project was set up in 2010 in the wake of the Citizens United ruling from the US supreme court that opened the floodgates to a vast infusion of corporate and trade union money into the political process.
(2) Until Martin Blogg quoted us a line or two from Simon Inglis' historical tome Villa Park 100 Years, that is: "Aston Villa Football Club was founded by pupils of the Aston Villa Wesleyan Chapel Sunday school.
(3) Also at the bottom of the ABI tables are NFU Mutual, Wesleyan, Phoenix and Abbey Life.
(4) After graduating from high school, she enrolled at Wesleyan , a liberal arts college in Connecticut.
(5) "Previously the IPCC was accused of being very conservative," said Gary Yohe, professor of economics and environmental studies at Wesleyan University, one of the authors of the report.
(6) Jobs's address is up against Barack Obama's lecture to Wesleyan University in 2008, Elie Wiesel's talk at DePaul University in 1997, Václav Havel's lecture on "Civilisation's Thin Veneer" at Harvard in 1995 and George Marshall's address to the same university in 1947 – to list just four.
(7) Here's a summary of the day's developments: • The Obama campaign has "dominated" the airwaves in battleground states in the last three weeks, running hundreds of ads more than the Romney camp in key markets, according to a Wesleyan Media Project report.
(8) Her critics have used her attendance there, along with her comparatively privileged upbringing, as a way of attacking her, so I ask her what Wesleyan represents to people.
(9) The heavy advertising from the Obama campaign has challenged the assumption that Romney-friendly outside groups would saturate and dominate the airwaves in key markets,” said Erika Franklin Fowler, co-director of the Wesleyan Media Project.
(10) He later earned his law degree from the Texas Wesleyan School of Law.
(11) The South African president, Jacob Zuma, will be joined by foreign heads of state where it all began: a Wesleyan church in Waaihoek, Bloemfontein.
(12) Gary Yohe, an economist at Wesleyan University and vice-chair of the NCA advisory committee, said the US report would be unequivocal that the effects of climate change were occurring in real-time and were evident in every region of the country.
(13) Firshein, William (Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.), Robert J. Erickson, and Bernadette A. Gargan.
(14) Photograph: Getty Images Two years out of Wesleyan and she had formed the Dresden Dolls.
(15) In July, it spent 10m rand (£800,000) of public funds to regain the Wesleyan church in Waaihoek from a man who acquired it for just 280,000 rand (£22,000) eight years ago, according to South Africa's Mail & Guardian newspaper.
(16) Studies of HD 189733b, a hot gas giant that is larger than Jupiter, have confirmed that its atmosphere contains sodium, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, water vapour and methane In an accompanying article in Nature, Seth Redfield of the Van Vleck Observatory at Wesleyan University in Connecticut writes: "A number of other worlds, soon to be discovered, will be small and rocky like Earth, and will have atmospheres that we can detect.
(17) But a survey by the Wesleyan Media Project shows that of interest groups buying political advertising for the US Senate and House races since January, Murdoch has given large sums to two of the three highest spenders.
(18) As well as Fidelity, the Wall Street firm Bank of New York Mellon and mutual society Wesleyan Assurance, which provides financial services to professionals, are among those companies that have begun taking on apprentices, Perrins said.
(19) Here the list is topped by Wesleyan University with Berkeley only in there at number four and Harvard at five.