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METEZAU' (Paul,) brother of the preceding, and a 
very popular preacher, was born at Paris about the year 
158a. He ftudied at the college of Navarre, of which he 
was admitted a licentiate in 1611. He now united with 
M. de Berulle in founding the Congregation of the Ora¬ 
tory in France, and proved one of the moft fuccefsful 
agents in procuring eftablilhments for that new fociety. 
In 1612, he took a journey to vifit the famed houfe of 
Loretto in Italy; and, in 1614, became firft lu peri or of a 
lioule belonging to his order at Dieppe. In 1616, he 
commenced the eftablilhment of a new fociety at Tours. 
The remainder of his life was chiefly fpent in travelling 
through the different provinces of France, where he 
preached with great acceptability in moll of the principal 
cities, and gained vail numbers of converts to his pro- 
feflion. He died at Calais in 1632, when about fifty 
years of age. He was the author of, 1. Theologia Sacra 
juxta Formam Evangelicse Priedicationis dillributa, 1625, 
folio. 2. De Prelbyteri, de Sanfto Sacerdotio, ejus Dig- 
nitate et Funftionibus facris, ad Sacerdotum atque 
omnium qui Orationi, Minifterio Verbi, Curse Ani- 
raarura incumbunt piam Inftitutionem, 1631, 8vo. 3. The 
inward Exerciles of the Inner'Man, 1627. 4. ATreatife 
on a Life of Perfection, or the Model of that of Jefus 
Chrift, 1627, 8vo. Gen. Diog. 
METH, Meti, or Mott, a fmall ifland near the coaft 
of Africa, at the entrance of Babel Mandel, with a town. 
Lat. 11. 15. N. Lon. 48.45. E. 
METHA'NA, a town of the Morea, near the coaff 
of the gulf of Engia : fifty-fix miles eaft-louth-eaft of 
Napoli di Romania. 
METHEGAM'MAH, [Heb. the bridle of bondage.] 
The name of a place, a Sam. 
METHEG'LIN, f. [meddyglyn , Wellh, from medd and 
ghjn, to glue; or medclyg, a phyiician, and llyn, drink, 
becaufe it is a medicinal drink.] Mead. Drink made of 
honey boiled with water and fermented : 
T’ allay the ftrength and hardnefs of the wine, 
And with old Bacchus new metheglin join. Dry den. 
For various ways of making it, fee the article Mead, 
vol. xiv. p. 586. 
METH'ILL, a fmall feaport of Scotland, in Fifelhire, 
erefted into a burgh of barony by the bifiiop of St. 
Andrew’s in 1662. It has a weekly market, but hardly 
320 inhabitants: three miles north-eaft of Wemyfs. 
METHIN'KS, verb impeij'onal; [imagined to be a Nor¬ 
man corruption, the French being apt to confound me 
and I.] I think ; it feems to me: mefeems.—In all ages 
poets have been had in fpecial reputation, and, methinks, 
not without great caufe ; for, befides their fweet inven¬ 
tions, and moll witty lays, they have always uled to fet 
forth the praifes of the good and virtuous. SpenJ'er on 
Ireland. —There is another circumftance, which,- methinks, 
gives us a very high idea of the nature of the foul, in 
regard to what pafles in dreams, that innumerable mul¬ 
titude and variety of ideas which then arife in her. 
Addifun. —See Meseems, which is more llriftly gram¬ 
matical, though lels in ufe.— Methinks was ufed even by 
thofe who ufed likewile mefeems. JolinJ’on. 
METH'LEY, a village in Yorkffiire, about fix miles from 
Pontefraft. Here is Methley Park, the feat of the earl of 
Mexborough. The maniion is fitted up and furniflied in 
fo rich a manner, as juftly to attraft the attention of tra¬ 
vellers. The houfe, indeed, is not a large one; but it is, 
upon the whole, much better finifned than moft of its fize 
in the kingdom, and than many more capital ones. As 
to the fituation, Mr. Young, in his Northern Tour, fpeaks 
as follows : “ Thofe who go by Methley to Pontefraft, 
mull be extremely fond of feeing houfes, or it will not 
recompenfe.the fatigue of palling fuch deteftable roads. 
They are full of ruts, whofe gaping jaws threaten to 
fwallow up any carriage lefs than a waggon. It would 
be no bad precaution, to yoke half a fcore of oxen to your 
coach, to be ready to encounter fuch quagmires as you 
will here meet with.” 
ME'THO, a fmall independent country of Africa, 
fouth-eall of Fittre. 
ME'FHO, a town of the Morea: thirty-four miles 
eaft-fouth-eaft of Napoli di Romania. 
METIi'OD, f. [methodus , Lat. from the Gr. fASTM, with5 
and oS'oi, a way.] Order, arrangement ; a manner; the 
order moll convenient to attain the end propofed.— Me¬ 
thod, taken in the largeft fenfe, implies the placing of fe- 
veral things, or performing feveral operations, in fuch an 
order as is moft convenient to attain fome end. Watts .— 
To fee wherein the harm which they feel confifteth, the 
feeds from which it fprang, and the method of curing it, 
belongeth to a Ikill, the ftudy whereof is full of toil, and 
the praftice befet with difficulties. Hooker. 
If you will jell with me, know my afpeft, 
And falhion your demeanour to my looks, 
Or I will beat this method in your fconce. Shakefpeare. 
METHOD'IC, or Methodical, adj. Ranged or pro¬ 
ceeding in due or juft order.—The moll methodic and ac¬ 
curate of them all. Harris's Philological Inquiries. —The 
obfervations follow one another without that methodical 
regularity requifite in a profe author. Addij'ou's Spettator, 
Let me appear, great fir, I pray. 
Methodical in what I fay. Addifon's Rofamond. 
METHODICALLY, adv. According to method and 
order.-—To begin methodically, I lliould enjoin you travel; 
for ablence doth remove the caufe, removing the object. 
Suckling. —All the rules of painting are methodically, con- 
cifely, and clearly,'delivered in this treatife. Dryden. 
To METH'ODISE, v. a. To regulate; to dilpofe in or¬ 
der.—The man who does not know how to methodij'e his 
thoughts, has always a barren fuperfiuity of words ; the 
fruit is loft amidft the exuberance of leaves. Spedlator. 
Thofe rules of old difcover’d, not devis’d, 
Are nature Hill, but nature methodis'd. Pope. 
METH'ODISING, J'. The aft of reducing to method. 
METH'ODISM, f. The doftrine of the methodifts. 
METH'ODIST, j. One who afts methodically, or ac¬ 
cording to a particular method. This title was aflumed 
by a feft of phyficians at Rome, in order to diftinguilh 
themfelves from the two oppofite fefts, the Empirics and 
the Dogmatifts, with either of which they refufed to ar¬ 
range themfelves. Their hillory will be found under the 
article Pathology. 
METH'ODIST, f. A term commonly applied to one 
who is a follower of the principles of John Weftey or of 
George Whitefield. There have been, however, Me¬ 
thodifts among the Papiils as well as among the Pro- 
teflants. 
The Popish Methodists were thofe polemical 
doftors, of whom the moft eminent arofe in Fiance to¬ 
wards the middle of the feventeentfi century, in oppofition 
to the Huguenots or Proteftants. The Methodifts, from 
their different manner of treating the controverfy with 
their opponents, may be divided into two clafles. The 
one may comprehend thofe doftors, whofe method of dif- 
puting with the Proteftants was difingenuous and unrea- 
fonable, and who followed the examples of thofe military 
chiefs who fliut up their troops in intrenchments and 
flrong holds, in order to cover them from the attacks of 
the enemy. Of this number were, the Jefuit Veron, who 
required the Proteftants to prove the tenets of their church 
by plain paflages of Scripture, without being allowed the 
liberty of illullrating thefe paflages, reafoning upon them, 
or drawing any conclufions from them ; Nihufius, an apof- 
tate from the Proteftant religion ; the two Walenburgs, 
and others, who confined themfelves to the bulinefs of 
anfwering objeftions and repelling attacks ; and cardinal 
Richelieu, who reftrifted the whole controverfy to the An¬ 
gle article of the divine inftitution and authority of the 
church. The Methodifts of the fecond clafs were of opi¬ 
nion, that the molt expedient manner of reducing the 
Proteftants to filence, was not to attack them partially, 
but to overwhelm them at once, by the weight of fome 
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