Word Meanings - SWADDLER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A term of contempt for an Irish Methodist. Shipley.
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- 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 - CONTEMPTIBLY
In a contemptible manner. - CONTEMPTUOUSLY
In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully. The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and used contemptuously. Jer. Taylor. - CONTEMPTUOUS
Manifecting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful. A proud, contemptious behavior. Hammond. Savage invectiveand contemptuous sarcasm. Macaulay. Rome . . . entertained the most contemptuous opinion of the Jews. - CONTEMPT
Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court, tending to disturb its proceedings, or impair the - CONTEMPTIBLENESS
The state or quality of being contemptible, or of being despised. - IRISHISM
A mode of speaking peculiar to the Irish; an Hibernicism. - CONTEMPTIBLE
1. Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable. Milton. The arguments of tyranny are ascontemptible as its force is dreadful. Burke. 2. Despised; scorned; neglected; abject. Locke. 3. Insolent; scornful; contemptuous. - IRISH
Of or pertaining to Ireland or to its inhabitants; produced in Ireland. Irish elk. See under Elk. -- Irish moss. Carrageen. A preparation of the same made into a blanc mange. -- Irish poplin. See Poplin. -- Irish potato, the ordinary white - METHODISTIC; METHODISTICAL
Of or pertaining to methodists, or to the Methodists. -- Meth`o*dis"tic*al*ly, adv. - IRISHMAN
A man born in Ireland or of the Irish race; an Hibernian. Irishman's hurricane , a dead calm. -- Irishman's reef. See Irish reef, under Irish, a. - CONTEMPTUOUSNESS
Disposition to or manifestion of contempt; insolence; haughtiness. - CONTEMPTIBILITY
The quality of being contemptible; contemptibleness. Speed. - IRISHRY
The Celtic people of Ireland. "The whole Irishry of rebels." Milton. - IRISH AMERICAN
A native of Ireland who has become an American citizen; also, a child or descendant of such a person. - AMETHODIST
One without method; a quack. - GAIRISH; GAIRISHLY; GAIRISHNESS
See GARISHNESS - FAIRISH
Tolerably fair. W. D. Howells.