"Aldersgate" meaning in All languages combined

See Aldersgate on Wiktionary

Proper name [English]

Etymology: (religious experience): Short for Aldersgate Street, the site of a Moravian meeting at which John Wesley had a religious experience. Etymology templates: {{sense|religious experience}} (religious experience): Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Aldersgate
  1. A ward of the City of London
    Sense id: en-Aldersgate-en-name-Vkgb7gQf Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 31 38 31
  2. (historical) A religious experience undergone by John Wesley in May 1738. Tags: historical Categories (topical): Religion
    Sense id: en-Aldersgate-en-name-uuVvHk6T Disambiguation of Religion: 0 59 41 Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 31 38 31
  3. A similar experience among his followers.
    Sense id: en-Aldersgate-en-name-gi7Rb5R5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, Pages with 1 entry Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 22 34 44 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 25 28 47 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 31 38 31
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "religious experience"
      },
      "expansion": "(religious experience):",
      "name": "sense"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "(religious experience): Short for Aldersgate Street, the site of a Moravian meeting at which John Wesley had a religious experience.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Aldersgate",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "31 38 31",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A ward of the City of London"
      ],
      "id": "en-Aldersgate-en-name-Vkgb7gQf",
      "links": [
        [
          "ward",
          "ward"
        ],
        [
          "City of London",
          "City of London"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "31 38 31",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 59 41",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Religion",
          "orig": "en:Religion",
          "parents": [
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, Jan Shipps, Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years Among the Mormons",
          "text": "Aldersgate is the expression Methodists use to refer to the powerful spiritual experience in which, in Wesley's own words, his \"heart was strangely warmed.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Methodist History, volumes 43-44, page 268",
          "text": "Consequently, Aldersgate is perceived as one more spiritual experience along the way of salvation",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, John Fremont Beeson, John Wesley and the American Frontier, page 150",
          "text": "J. Earnest Rattenbury, in his book, Wesley's Legacy in the World, quotes a man by the name of Riggs, author of The Churchmanship of John Wesley, as saying that: the Wesley before Aldersgate was not the same man as after Aldersgate.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A religious experience undergone by John Wesley in May 1738."
      ],
      "id": "en-Aldersgate-en-name-uuVvHk6T",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A religious experience undergone by John Wesley in May 1738."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "22 34 44",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "25 28 47",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "31 38 31",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1938, Edward Laird Mills, Christian Advocate, Pacific edition, volume 87, page 565",
          "text": "Must our Aldersgate experience help us meet the needs of common men ?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1943, Michigan Christian Advocate, volume 70, page xxii",
          "text": "Now we know that only the road ahead can be our Aldersgate. And it can happen there, albeit, that road may lead through new battlefields of moral struggle for a Christian society before it emerges upon the heights of spiritual ecstasy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1962, Motive, volume 23, page 16",
          "text": "We will not have had our Aldersgate until we can, on the one hand, confess with incredible joy that Christ has taken away our sins and then, on the other hand, plunge into the work of his kingdom",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A similar experience among his followers."
      ],
      "id": "en-Aldersgate-en-name-gi7Rb5R5"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Aldersgate Street",
    "Aldersgate#John Wesley",
    "John Wesley"
  ],
  "word": "Aldersgate"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "en:Religion"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "religious experience"
      },
      "expansion": "(religious experience):",
      "name": "sense"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "(religious experience): Short for Aldersgate Street, the site of a Moravian meeting at which John Wesley had a religious experience.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Aldersgate",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A ward of the City of London"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ward",
          "ward"
        ],
        [
          "City of London",
          "City of London"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, Jan Shipps, Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years Among the Mormons",
          "text": "Aldersgate is the expression Methodists use to refer to the powerful spiritual experience in which, in Wesley's own words, his \"heart was strangely warmed.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Methodist History, volumes 43-44, page 268",
          "text": "Consequently, Aldersgate is perceived as one more spiritual experience along the way of salvation",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, John Fremont Beeson, John Wesley and the American Frontier, page 150",
          "text": "J. Earnest Rattenbury, in his book, Wesley's Legacy in the World, quotes a man by the name of Riggs, author of The Churchmanship of John Wesley, as saying that: the Wesley before Aldersgate was not the same man as after Aldersgate.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A religious experience undergone by John Wesley in May 1738."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A religious experience undergone by John Wesley in May 1738."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1938, Edward Laird Mills, Christian Advocate, Pacific edition, volume 87, page 565",
          "text": "Must our Aldersgate experience help us meet the needs of common men ?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1943, Michigan Christian Advocate, volume 70, page xxii",
          "text": "Now we know that only the road ahead can be our Aldersgate. And it can happen there, albeit, that road may lead through new battlefields of moral struggle for a Christian society before it emerges upon the heights of spiritual ecstasy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1962, Motive, volume 23, page 16",
          "text": "We will not have had our Aldersgate until we can, on the one hand, confess with incredible joy that Christ has taken away our sins and then, on the other hand, plunge into the work of his kingdom",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A similar experience among his followers."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Aldersgate Street",
    "Aldersgate#John Wesley",
    "John Wesley"
  ],
  "word": "Aldersgate"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Aldersgate meaning in All languages combined (2.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-09-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-08-20 using wiktextract (8e41825 and f99c758). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.