English
Methodism
From method + -ism.
Formed from method + -ism
Ancient Greek ὁδός ‘road’
Ancient Greek μέθοδος ‘following after’
Latin methodus
Middle French methode ‘method’
English method
The story
Fellow students at the University of Oxford called Wesley and his followers "methodists" because they lived and practiced their faith methodically; Wesley adopted the designation.
Today it means
noun The Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley in 18th-century England.
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