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fanaticize, v.|fəˈnætɪsaɪz|
Also fanaticise.
[f. as prec. + -ize.]
1. trans. To infect with fanaticism; to render fanatical, make a fanatic of; to infuriate.
1812W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXVII. 148 The Duke..accused the parliamentary zealots of having fanaticized the assassin. 1848Clough Amours de Voy. i. 106 These, that fanaticized Europe. 1860Sat. Rev. X. 357/2 The object is..to fanaticize the mob against the day of trial.
2. intr. To act as a fanatic.
1715M. Davies Athen. Brit. I. 269 Take heed least a worse Prophecy..overtake them..for fanaticizing and rejecting the express Words of Scripture. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. iii. iii. ii, A man..fighting and fanaticising amid a Nation of his like. 1883Brit. Q. Rev. Oct. 403 He loves humanity as a whole too truly to fanaticise for a class.
Hence faˈnaticized ppl. a.
1827Southey Hist. Penins. War II. 186 About two hundred, whom the French praised in reality{ddd}by calling them the most fanaticised, etc. 1873Contemp. Rev. XXI. 912 A party of men honest but fanaticized. |