WESLEY'S VOCABULARY | TODAY'S EQUIVALENT |
bowels | center of emotion; often what we mean by "heart" |
charity | love |
conversation | (often means) manner of life |
disinterested | impartial (e.g., "disinterested love for all") |
ejaculation | exclamation |
end | (often means) purpose, goal (e.g., "to what end") |
filial | pertaining to sonship (e.g., "filial love") |
intercourse | interaction, relationship |
meet | fit, proper |
nice | overly concerned with what is socially proper |
peculiar ("peculiar people") | particular, distinct |
prevent | (often means) precede |
prevenient | preceding (literally, "coming before") |
primitive | early, original (e.g., "the primitive church") |
prove | (often means) come to know by experience |
retirement | seclusion, privacy |
several | different, various (e.g., "at two several places") |
singular | distinct; not conforming to the crowd |
styled | called, known as |
temper | attitude, temperament, disposition |
to own | (often means) to acknowledge |
vulgar | popular, common, colloquial |
want | (often means) need or lack rather than desire (e.g., "go to those who want you most" means "those who need you most.") |
List compiled by Dr. Howard A. Snyder of Asbury Theological Seminary