Emily Dickinson Lexicon

METH'OD-IST, n.

1. One that observes method.
2. One of a sect of Christians, founded by Morgan, or rather by John Wesley, and so called from the exact regularity of their lives, and the strictness of their principles and rules.
3. A physician who practices by method or theory. Boyle.
4. In the cant of irreligious men, a person of strict piety; one who lives in the exact observance of religious duties.