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Word Meanings - AMETHODIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One without method; a quack.

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  • QUACK
    1. To utter a sound like the cry of a duck. 2. To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast. " To quack of universal cures." Hudibras. 3. To act the part of a quack, or pretender.
  • METHODIST
    One of a sect of Christians, the outgrowth of a small association called the "Holy Club," formed at Oxford University, A.D. 1729, of which the most conspicuous members were John Wesley and his brother Charles; -- originally so called from
  • QUACKISM
    Quackery. Carlyle.
  • METHOD
    Classification; a mode or system of classifying natural objects according to certain common characteristics; as, the method of Theophrastus; the method of Ray; the Linnæan method. Syn. -- Order; system; rule; regularity; way; manner; mode; course;
  • WITHOUT-DOOR
    Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
  • WITHOUTFORTH
    Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
  • QUACK GRASS
    See GRASS
  • METHODIZE
    To reduce to method; to dispose in due order; to arrange in a convenient manner; as, to methodize one's work or thoughts. Spectator.
  • METHODIC; METHODICAL
    1. Arranged with regard to method; disposed in a suitable manner, or in a manner to illustrate a subject, or to facilitate practical observation; as, the methodical arrangement of arguments; a methodical treatise. "Methodical regularity." Addison.
  • METHODIOS
    The art and principles of method.
  • QUACKLE
    To suffocate; to choke.
  • METHODIZER
    One who methodizes.
  • METHODOLOGICAL
    Of or pertaining to methodology.
  • WITHOUTEN
    Without. Chaucer.
  • METHODISM
    The system of doctrines, polity, and worship, of the sect called Methodists. Bp. Warburton.
  • QUACKSALVER
    One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank. Burton.
  • WITHOUT
    1. On or art the outside; not on the inside; not within; outwardly; externally. Without were fightings, within were fears. 2 Cor. vii. 5. 2. Outside of the house; out of doors. The people came unto the house without. Chaucer.
  • QUACKERY
    The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism. Carlyle.
  • METHODISTIC; METHODISTICAL
    Of or pertaining to methodists, or to the Methodists. -- Meth`o*dis"tic*al*ly, adv.
  • METHODIZATION
    The act or process of methodizing, or the state of being methodized.
  • IMMETHODICALLY
    Without method; confusedly; unsystematically.
  • AMETHODIST
    One without method; a quack.
  • WORD METHOD
    A method of teaching reading in which words are first taken as single ideograms and later analyzed into their phonetic and alphabetic elements; -- contrasted with the alphabet and sentence methods.
  • MONTESSORI METHOD
    A system of training and instruction, primarily for use with normal children aged from three to six years, devised by Dr. Maria Montessori while teaching in the "Houses of Childhood" (schools in the poorest tenement districts of Rome, Italy), and

 

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