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