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an adherent of or believer in Primitive Methodism.
Chiefly in plural. Also with capital initial. Now historical. In the 19th cent. (somewhat depreciative): (a name applied to) a member of any of…
= Primitive Methodist n. at compounds 2 (cf. Prim, n.6). Now rare.