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Date: 03-25-04 12:28
Fanatic
ad. L. fanatic-us, f. fanum temple: see -ATIC. Cf. Fr. fanatique.]
A. adj.
1. a. Of an action or speech: Such as might result from possession by a deity or demon; frantic, furious. Of a person: Frenzied, mad. Obs.
1533 BELLENDEN Livy IV. (1822) 356 This uncouth and terribil buschement..ruschit..with phanatik and wod cours on thare inemyis. c1534 tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden) I. 71 Such fanatike and fond observations. 1626 MINSHEU Ductor (ed. 2), Fanatick, mad, franticke, also inspired with a prophetical furie. 1634 SIR T. HERBERT Trav. (1638) 221 Some think..the torryd Zone, the fierie sword; and such other fanatick fancies. 1641 BAKER Chron. 148 A fanatick fellow..gave forth, that himselfe was the true Edward. 1655-60 STANLEY Hist. Philos. (1701) 494/2 Persons Divinely inspired, and Fanatick. 1721-1800 in BAILEY.
b. Comb.
1603 CHETTLE Eng. Mourn. Garment in Harl. Misc. (1793) 202 They are..proud, fanatick-spirited counterfeits. 1926 W. J. LOCKE Stories Near & Far 225 A bearded, fanatic-eyed..figure. 1932 W. FAULKNER Light in August xx. 447 Fanaticfaced country preachers.
2. Of persons, their actions, attributes, etc.: Characterized, influenced, or prompted by excessive and mistaken enthusiasm, esp. in religious matters.
1647 CLARENDON Hist. Reb. IV. (1702) I. 266 The Lord Mayor..Opposing all their Fanatick humours..grew to be reckon'd in the First Form of the Malignants. 1659 BP. WALTON Consid. Considered 169 Papists, Atheists, and fanatic persons. 1659-60 MONK Sp. 6 Feb. in Wood Life (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) I. 303 Be careful neither the cavalier nor phanatique party have yet a share in your civil..power. a1680 BUTLER Rem. (1759) I. 215 All our lunatic fanatic Sects. 1704 SWIFT T. Tub i. 26 The two principal qualifications of a Phanatic Preacher are [etc.]. 1774 PENNANT Tour Scot. in 1772. 58 The cloisters..fell victims to fanatic fury. 1850 W. IRVING Mahomet x. (1853) 39 The Fanatic legions of the desert. 1883 Manch. Exam. 30 Oct. 5/5 Banded..in fanatic and violent opposition to the measure.
B. n.
1. A mad person. In later use: A religious maniac. Obs.
c1525 Robin Hood 160 Fool, fanatick, baboon. 1655 M. CASAUBON Enthusiasme 7 One Orpheus, a mere fanatick. 1806 Med. Jrnl. XV. 213 Dr. G[all] gave..hints how to treat fanatics, by using topical remedies and poultices.
2. a. A fanatic person; a visionary; an unreasoning enthusiast. Applied in the latter half of the 17th c. to Nonconformists as a hostile epithet.
1644 ABP. MAXWELL Sacrosancta Regum Majestas 44 Gratia gratum faciens, Saving Grace, as some fanatickes and fantastickes fondly imagine. 1657 JOHN GAULE Sapient. Justif. 11 Enthusiasts, Anabaptists, Fanaticks, and Familists. 1660 FULLER Mixt. Contempl. (1841) 212 A new word coined, within few months, called fanatics..seemeth well..proportioned to signify..the sectaries of our age. 1660 PEPYS Diary 15 Apr., Since Lambert got out of the Tower, the Fanatiques had held up their heads high. 1709 EVANS in Hearne Collect. 10 Nov., D. Sacheverel..thunderd..against ye phanaticks. 1780 HARRIS Philol. Enq. (1841) 430 Henry the Fourth of France..was unexpectedly murdered by a wretched fanatic. 1859 KINGSLEY Sir W. Raleigh I. 20 The man of one idea, who works at nothing but that..sacrifices everything to that; the fanatic in short. 1883 FROUDE Short Stud. IV. iii. 269 The Jews..were troublesome fanatics whom it was equally difficult to govern or destroy.
b. A fanatical devotee of.
1790 BURKE Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 66 Those exploded fanaticks of slavery.
c. Comb.
1707 E. WARD Hud. Rediv. (1715) II. ix, To show, tho' conquer'd, they abhor (Fanatick like) all sov'reign Pow'r. 1722 SEWEL Hist. Quakers (1795) II. VII. 62 Robinson's mischievous intent to go a fanatick hunting.
Hence fanaticness Obs., fanaticalness.
1662 J. SPARROW tr. Behme's Rem. Wks., Complexions 17 Which is Phrenzie, Madnesse and Phanatiquenesse. 1665 J. SERGEANT Sure-Footing 108 The denying Tradition is a proper..disposition to Fanatickness.
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Pharaoh
Forms: 1 Pharaon, 4 Pharaone, Pharaoe, Farao, 4-7 Pharao, 7 Pharoh, 8 Pharoah, 7- Pharaoh. [orig. ad. L. Phara, Pharan-em (whence F. Pharaon), a. Gr. , a. Heb. parh, ad. Egypt. pr-o great house. The later Eng. spelling takes the final h from Heb.]
1. The generic appellation of the ancient Egyptian kings; an Egyptian king, esp. that one under whom Joseph flourished, and those in whose time the oppression and Exodus of Israel took place.
c893 K. ЖLFRED Oros. I. iv. §2 Hiora eaw wжre жt hi ealle hiora cyningas hetan Pharaon. 1362 LANGL. P. Pl. A. VIII. 150 Hit fel as e Fader seide In Pharaones tyme. 1382 WYCLIF Gen. xli. 1 After two eer Pharao [1388 Farao] sawe a sweuen. a1555 LATIMER Serm. & Rem. (Parker Soc.) 177 After that he came at the Red sea, Pharao with his power followed at his back. 1614 SELDEN Titles Hon. 73 The Egyptian Kings in holy writ vntill Salomons time are all calld Pharaoh's. It was no proper name, but a title which euery one of them had. 1877 A. B. EDWARDS Up Nile xiv. 385 Rameses the Second..remains to this day the representative Pharaoh of a line of monarchs whose history covers a space of fifty centuries.
b. fig. Used as a name for any tyrant or task-master.
c1630 SANDERSON Serm. Prov. xix. 21 §34 Scattering such proud Pharaohs in the imagination of their hearts. 1846 MRS. GORE Sk. Eng. Char. (1852) 69 The Sundays..by permission of his Pharaoh of the mill, were usually spent in wandering with his sisters about the green lanes by Gadesbridge, or Gaddesden.
2. (Also Pharaon, Pharoan, Pharo.) A gambling game played with cards: = FARO1. Obs.
1717 GAY To Pulteney 79 Nannette last night at tricking Pharaon play'd. 1739, 1748 [see FARO1 1]. 1782 [T. VAUGHAN] Fashionable Follies II. cclxii. 212 She..spent whole days, and even nights, at whist and pharoan. 1792 WOLCOTT (P. Pindar) Odes Import., Resignation xii, Behold, a hundred coaches at her door, Where Pharo triumphs in his mad career.
attrib. 1721 S. CENTLIVRE Artifice 1, He belongs to a Pharaoh-table, I us'd to see him tally sometimes. 1729 GAY Polly 11, For some time I kept a Pharaon bank with success. 1796 COLQUHOUN Police of Metropolis p. x, [Houses] where Pharo Banks are kept. a1843 SOUTHEY Comm.-pl. Bk. (1849) IV. 416 A party were at the pharo-table.
3. A kind of strong ale or beer; also known as ‘Old Pharaoh’, ‘Stout Pharaoh’. Cf. FARO2. Obs. or dial.
1683 G. MERITON Praise Yorks. Ale (1685) 3 Lac'd Coffee, Twist, Old Pharoh, and Old Hoc, Juniper, Brandy and Wine de Langue-Dock. 1702 T. BROWN Lett. fr. Dead Wks. 1760 II. 286 A morning's draught of three-threads and old Pharoah. 1839 W. H. AINSWORTH J. Sheppard II. v, Don't muddle your brains with any more of that Pharaoh.
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