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Definition of Methodist church
1. Noun. A Protestant denomination founded on the principles of John Wesley and Charles Wesley.
Terms within: Methodist Denomination
Generic synonyms: Protestant Denomination
Member holonyms: Methodist
Definition of Methodist church
1. Proper noun. The Christian Church based upon Methodism ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Methodist Church
Literary usage of Methodist church
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"(6) The Welsh Calvinistic methodist church is Methodist almost solely in name.
... (3) The Congregational methodist church dates back to 1852; ..."
2. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"Tbc methodist church b governed primarily by the Conference, ... Tbc Methodist
Church was founded In 1739 by the two brothers Wesley and rapidly spread ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"Minor methodist churches: The Primitive methodist church, as it exists in the
United States, came from England. It has three annual conferences subdivided ..."
4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1876)
"Primitive methodist church, 507.—VIII. United Methodist Free Churches, 507.—IX.
... Congregational methodist church, 486 ; statistics of, 486 ; articles on ..."