Wesleyanize

present singular third person Wesleyanizes · participle present Wesleyanizing · participle past Wesleyanized · past Wesleyanized · alternative Wesleyanise

1. To convert to Wesleyanism; To cause to conform to the theology of John Wesley.

   We must still further Wesleyanize the methods of our beloved Church.

   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

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   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.

   1850, John Hessel, Mental and Moral Excellence, and the Way to attain it, page 193

   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.

   1889, George Herbert Curteis, Bishop Selwyn of New Zealand, and of Lichfield