a. Also connectional. [f. prec. + -AL.]
1. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, connection.
18[?]. Worcester cites Ed. Rev.
2. Of or pertaining to the Methodist Connexion.
1838. Min. Wesl. Conf., Q. 23. The Connexional Fund to be raised on the occasion of the centenary.
1870. Tyerman, Life J. Wesley, II. III. 613. This was a great connexional effort to collect £12,000 to defray all the connexional chapel debts.
1885. Manch. Exam., 18 June, 4/6. The Primitive Methodist … body … has now … connexional property to the value of nearly £3,000,000 sterling.
Hence Connexionalism, the system of the Methodist Connexion in theory and practice.
1883. Daily News, 28 April. They [Congregationalists] needed more connexionalism and must get out of their extreme independence and isolation.
1884. Congregationalist, Feb., 139. The necessity of something like local connexionalism.
