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.
• METHODISTIC; METHODISTICAL
  Of or pertaining to methodists, or to the Methodists. -- Meth`o*dis"tic*al*ly, adv.
• 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
• 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.