Wesleyanize

English

Alternative forms

• Wesleyanise

Etymology

Wesleyan +‎ -ize

Verb

Wesleyanize (third-person singular simple present Wesleyanizes, present participle Wesleyanizing, simple past and past participle Wesleyanized)

1. To convert to Wesleyanism; To cause to conform to the theology of John Wesley.
   • 1850, John Hessel, Mental and Moral Excellence, and the Way to attain it, page 193:

     I do not expect all my readers to approve of this act, for undoubtedly its tendency was to Wesleyanize the people, tho' he meant it not so.

   • 1889, George Herbert Curteis, Bishop Selwyn of New Zealand, and of Lichfield:

     The Wesleyan attempt, for instance, to Wesleyanize the Friendly Islands and the Feegees, and to associate every convert as a member of the Wesleyan Society, can only succeed by making Wesleyanism into a new form of the Papacy.

   • 1891, New York City Church Extension and Missionary Society, Report of the New York City Church Extension and Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church:

     We must still further Wesleyanize the methods of our beloved Church.