Wesleyanise

English

Verb

Wesleyanise (third-person singular simple present Wesleyanises, present participle Wesleyanising, simple past and past participle Wesleyanised)

1. Alternative form of Wesleyanize
   • 1867, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Birds of Prey:

     These are the letters of the regenerate and Wesleyanised Matthew; and, like the more elaborate epistles of his wife Rebecca, deal chiefly with matters spiritual.

   • 1887, George Dawson, Georges St Clair, Biographical Lectures, page 504:

     There will be a man rise out of its bosom to reform it — to re-Wesleyanise Wesleyanism.

   • 1911, F. Daustini Cremer, The Nation and Athenæum - Volume 10, page 132:

     I am sure that many loyal "Churchmen" who are Christians and patriots first, and "Churchmen” (in this narrow sense) afterwards, would even prefer to see the National Church “Wesleyanised,” or “Quakerised," or “ Congregationalised," than that the nation should cease to believe in itself as a Church at all, and should pronounce Christianity a thing outside the national life, only fit for groups and sects to squabble over.