Methodisticaladj.

1746 H. Fielding Female Husband 3 [She] was..no novice in impurity, which..she had learnt and often practiced at Bristol with her methodistical sisters.

1795 (title) The Wolf in sheep's cloathing. A fragment. Addressed to the methodistical clergy.

1817 J. Power in D. H. Woodforde Woodforde Papers (1932) iv. iii. 156 Dark treachery still lurked beneath the hypocritical, or—the proverbial expression here [i.e. in Sierra Leone]—Methodistical Countenance of the vile Captain.

1820 R. Southey Life Wesley II. 462 Meeting a man there one day, he asked him, in a methodistical manner, if he knew Jesus Christ.

1889 D. Hannay Life F. Marryat 38 What was called in the navy a ‘blue light’, that is a pious man of a somewhat Methodistical turn.

1991 D. Turley Culture Eng. Antislavery (BNC) 8 [Evangelicals] were often regarded with some suspicion by hierarchy and laity alike as troublesome and ‘Methodistical’.

1787 A. Seward Let. 28 May (1811) I. 301 And so Mr.—— talks methodistically.

1820 R. Polwhele in Lavington's Enthus. Meth. & Papists Introd. 26 We..term those Methodists who (whether Clergymen or Laymen) are Methodistically religious.

1884 American 8 84 The whole course of the Christian life, as conceived Methodistically, seems to us to labor under this defect.