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fanatical, a.|fəˈnætɪkəl|
[f. prec. + -al1.]
†1. Possessed by a deity or by a devil; frantic, mad, furious. Obs.
1568Grafton Chron. II. 538 A fanaticall Enchaunteresse [Joan of Arc]. 1581Savile Tacitus' Hist. (1612) 82 The æduans..with some of Vitellius Cohortes, discomfited that fanaticall multitude. a1633Austin Medit. (1635) 89 Those Phanaticall women of the Gentiles.
†b. Characteristic of a possessed person. Obs.
1600Holland Livy xxxix. 1031 The men shaking & wagging their bodies too and fro after a fanaticall fashion. 1603― Plutarch's Mor. 1345 Certaine fanaticall cries and voices.
2. = fanatic a. 2.
1550Bale Apol. 96 A Christen mannis obedyence standeth not in the fulfyllyng of fanaticall vowes. 1589Cooper Admon. 201 The Anabaptists, and some other phanaticall spirits. 1634Sanderson Serm. II. 283 That phanatical opinion..that no ecclesiastical person might lawfully exercise any secular power. 1669–70Marvell Corr. cxxxix. Wks. 1872–5 II. 307 Fox, a teacher of some fanaticall people in Wiltshire, did conventicle there. 1732Berkeley Alciphr. vi. §25 As fanatical as any Quietist or Quaker. 1841Elphinstone Hist. Ind. II. 289 The present quarrel orginated in a fanatical spirit, which had sprung up, many years before. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. III. xlvi. 308, I call a man fanatical when..he..becomes unjust and unsympathetic to men who are out of his own track.
†b. In a weaker sense: Extravagant. Obs.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. i. 20, I abhor such phanaticall phantasims.
†3. Of or pertaining to the ‘fanatics’ or Nonconformists. Obs.
1678Hickes in Ellis Orig. Lett. ii. 318. IV. 46 Many of the fanatical party..hope that the Commons..will grow jealous of these military proceedings. a1695Wood Life (1848) 245 Mr. John Fairclough..a non-conforming minister, was buried in the fanatical burial place, near the Artillery yard London. 1703De Foe Shortest Way with Dissenters Misc. 421 The phanatical Party of this Land.
Hence faˈnatically adv., in a fanatical manner. faˈnaticalness, the quality or state of being fanatical; fanaticism.
1672Cressy (title), Fanaticism fanatically imputed to the Catholick Church by Doctour Stillingfleet. 1792Burke Petit. Unitarians Wks. x. 57 Men..furiously and fanatically fond of an object. 1833Keble Serm. vii. (1848) 157 Those who maintain, profanely and fanatically, that the State..ought not to be of any religion. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. v. 422 The populace of France were fanatically catholic. 1668Wilkins Real Char. ii. 290 To which the notion of fierceness or fanaticalness is opposed. |