Crossword clues for wesleyan
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wesleyan \Wes"ley*an\, a. [See Wesleyanism.] Of or pertaining to Wesley or Wesleyanism.
Wesleyan \Wes"ley*an\, n. (Eccl.) One who adopts the principles of Wesleyanism; a Methodist.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pertaining to Wesley," 1771, in reference to John Wesley (1703-1791), founder of Methodism. The surname is from various places in England named West Leigh (or some variant). Related: Wesleyanism.
Wikipedia
A Wesleyan is any person who adopts the principles of Wesleyan theology or Wesleyanism.
Wesleyan may also refer to:
- One of many universities and liberal arts colleges named after John Wesley (See Wesleyan University), most of which are affiliated with a branch of Methodism, but there are several that are no longer affiliated and whose connection is wholly historic
- The theological emphasis on sanctification, characteristic of the holiness movement of which Wesley was part
- A number of educational institutions worldwide named " Wesley College"
- Wesleyan, the Wesleyan Church split from the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1843
- Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain)
- Many other churches bear the name of 'Wesleyan Church;. See Wesleyan Church (disambiguation)
Usage examples of "wesleyan".
It was men, and not women, who invented such sordid and literal faiths as those of the Mennonites, Dunkards, Wesleyans and Scotch Presbyterians, with their antipathy to beautiful ritual, their obscene buttonholing of God, their great talent for reducing the ineffable mystery of religion to a mere bawling of idiots.
Baptist or a Muggletonian, and the best soldier whether he was a Wesleyan or an Irvingite.
On this journey he discussed with the Wesleyans in Tonga a possible arrangement whereby Samoa be considered L.
And you really weren't anybody if you didn't possess, at the very least, a Wesleyan chapel with all its bits and bobs intact, that you had painstakingly tortured into a design studio, complete with en suite bathrooms, fitted kitchen and solarium.
So I can state that the man did not graduate from any division of the University of Texas, or from Texas Christian in Fort Worth, Texas Tech in Lubbock, Texas Wesleyan in Fort Worth, Texas Southern in Houston, Texas Eastern in Tyler, Texas Lutheran in Seguin, Texas A and I at Kingsville, Texas A and M at College Station and Prairie View, East Texas Baptist at Marshall, East Texas State at Commerce, North Texas State at Denton, or West Texas State at Canyon.
The Young Men's Debating Society was a newly formed branch of the multifarous activity of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel.