enthusiastn.

Brit.

/ᵻnˈθjuːzɪast/,

/ɛnˈθjuːzɪast/, U.S.

/ᵻnˈθ(j)uziˌæst/,

/ᵻnˈθ(j)uziəst/,

/ɛnˈθ(j)uziˌæst/,

/ɛnˈθ(j)uziəst/

Forms:

α. 1500s–1600s enthusiaste, 1500s–1600s enthysiast, 1500s– enthusiast, 1600s enthousiast, 1600s enthysiaste.

β. 1500s–1600s (1800s historical) enthusiastae (plural, in sense 1a).

γ. 1600s inthusiast.

Also with capital initial.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin enthusiasta; Greek ἐνθουσιαστής.

Etymology: < (i) post-classical Latin enthusiasta kind of heretic (5th cent.; also enthysiasta), and its etymon (ii) Hellenistic Greek ἐνθουσιαστής person who is possessed or inspired < ancient Greek ἐνθουσιάζειν (see enthusiasm n.) + -τής, suffix forming agent nouns. The later semantic development shows influence from enthusiasm n.Compare Middle French, French enthousiaste (1544). Specific senses. In sense 1b after German Enthusiast (1524 in Luther in this sense), itself after post-classical Latin enthusiasta . Specific forms. With the γ. forms perhaps compare in- prefix³.

a. Church History. In plural and usually with capital initial (also in form Enthusiastae). (A name applied to) the adherents of a supposed ancient Christian sect or movement, regarded as heretical, who reputedly claimed to receive divine communications through prayerful meditation. Now rare.Probably merely an abusive label given to those ascetics who resisted the authority of the Church hierarchy in the name of strict religious practice. The Enthusiasts are frequently identified with the Messalians, or Euchites, a sect which supposedly originated in the 4th cent. in the Near East, but which is also unlikely to have had a formal existence (cf. Messalian n.).

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > enthusiasts > [noun]

enthusiast1536

1536 R. Taverner tr. P. Melanchthon Apol. sig. N.vi^v in Confessyon Fayth Germaynes They..in olde tyme whiche were called enthusiastes [L. quemadmodum olim ἐνθουσιασταὶ docebant]..fayned them selues to be inflate and inspired by the diuine influence and power.

1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. III. v. iii. 871/1 So that it becommeth vs..not to looke for a secrete inspiration with the heretiques Enthusiastae [L. Enthusiastis].

1607 S. Hieron Dignitie of Script. ii. 22 There were in the elder times certaine Heretiques called Enthusiasts which pretended..visions, and secret conferences with the spirit of God, and so contemned the written word.

1639 F. Robartes Gods Holy House x. 75 The haeresie of the Messalini otherwise called Euchites and Enthusiastes.

1690 T. Comber Scholastical Hist. ii. i. 45 Those Hereticks called Euchites, and Enthusiasts; upon whom Theodoret is so severe, as to say he believes, they were inspired by the Devil.

1848 J. Torrey tr. A. Neander Gen. Hist. Christian Relig. & Church III. 323 They were called, sometimes,..Enthusiasts, (ενθουσιασταί,) on account of the pretended communications which they received from the Holy Spirit.

1879 R. Thornton St. Ambrose iv. 26 The fanatical Euchites or Enthusiastæ, the Jumpers and Shakers of the fourth century, had begun to disseminate their strange fancies.

1994 Y. Stoyanov Hidden Trad. in Europe ii. 106 The Massalians.., also called Enthusiasts, were an anti-clerical, pietist sect about whose actual teachings very little is known.

b. depreciative. A person who falsely or erroneously claims to receive divine communication or inspiration; (a name applied to) a member of any of various Christian movements believing in, or thought to believe in, private divine revelation as opposed to revelation through scripture. From the 18th cent. also in wider sense: a person whose religious or political opinions are regarded as fanatical, radical, or irrational, or who exhibits excessive religious or political fervour. Now historical.Esp. in the 17th and 18th centuries, the term enthusiast was applied disparagingly to Quakers, Methodists, and members of other widespread Christian movements emphasizing direct private communication with God, or rejecting established church government, doctrine, liturgy, etc., as well as to adherents of more radical religious beliefs, such as millenarians and self-proclaimed prophets. Pagitt and other 16th- and 17th-cent. writers sometimes use enthusiasts as though it were the formal name of a contemporary sect (cf. quot. 1645), but this is probably a misrepresentation.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > inspiration or revelation > [noun] > fancied inspiration > person

enthusiast1548

melancholist1600

enthusiastic1605

1548 tr. M. Luther Chiefe Articles Christen Faythe sig. E Wherewith we vs defend agaynst the Enthusiastes [Ger. Enthusiasten],..whiche boaste themselues to haue the spirite, without and before the word.., as he of minster didde, and yet many do nowe a dayes.

1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket vi. 328 Sottish Enthusiastes condemne all learning, all premeditation.

1645 E. Pagitt Heresiogr. 31 There are 14. severall sorts of Anabaptists..set downe by Alstedius..viz. Muncerians. Apostolikes... Enthusiasts. [etc.].

1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness v. x. 158 He was not a true Prophet, but a mere Political Enthusiast of a vafrous and versatil wit, with a little smack of cracktness and Lunacy.

1746 J. Wesley Princ. Methodist farther Explain'd 54 It is the believing those to be Miracles which are not, that constitutes an Enthusiast.

1771 W. Eden Princ. Penal Law xiv. 131 The misdirected, and dangerous zeal of political enthusiasts.

1806 Earl of Westmorland in Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 7 230 The idea of the abolition first originated..among atheists, enthusiasts, jacobins, and such descriptions of persons.

1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics II. x. i. 188 This very Church of Rome incarcerated Molinos and Madame Guyon as dangerous enthusiasts.

1910 Methodist Rev. Nov. 927 Certain there are, declaimers of destiny, enthusiasts,..who cheapen the Scriptures.

1974 PMLA 89 81/2 If the Reformation is to succeed [i.e. in 16th-cent. Zurich], religious soundness and firmness must avert the impending anarchy of the enthusiasts.

2010 16th Cent. Jrnl. 41 1197 Luther had an equal distaste for the arrogance of the Anabaptists/Enthusiasts who ‘claimed to possess the Spirit immediately’.

a. A person (supposedly) possessed by a god, demon, spirit, etc.; a person in a state of frenzy attributed to divine inspiration or demonic possession, typically involving speaking in tongues and making wild, uncoordinated movements. Now historical and rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > inspiration or revelation > [noun] > person having

seera1382

Alumbrado1600

illuminate1602

enthusiastic1605

enthusian1611

enthusiast1612

inspirado1664

entheastic1678

inspired1749

Maharishi1785

muni1785

rishi1794

Mahatma1882

1612 E. Grimeston tr. P. Matthieu Heroyk Life Henry IV 148 She cried out without any trouble, or such agitations and feare proper to Enthousiasts, Madam, pray vnto God for the King, for they are killing him, and within a while after, Alas, he is dead!

1660 E. Stillingfleet Irenicum i. v. 96 She used not such a strange confused voice and tremblings as they did who were their proper Enthusiasts, as the Sybils and the Pythian prophetess.

1739 J. Lockman tr. A. R. Le Sage Bachelor of Salamanca II. 204 This Master of mine is an Enthusiast, who has a most odd Kind of Frenzy.

1804 tr. V. J. Duval in Universal Mag. 1 Suppl. 735/2 The convulsive movements of the mouth and throat, and the discordant tones which issued from them.., made me take these two Israelites for possessed enthusiasts.

1850 J. Torrey tr. A. Neander Gen. Hist. Christian Relig. & Church VI. 41 Looking upon these enthusiasts [sc. berserkers] as men possessed of evil spirits, he had pronounced a prayer..to confine the power of the demon.

2010 A. Samellas Alienation iii. 200 Aretaeus of Cappadocia named this affliction ‘divine mania’,..saying that, when the enthusiasts had altogether lost their mind, they became free of every worry and happy as if they were god's initiates.

†b. figurative. A person who receives artistic inspiration portrayed as coming from a god, muse, spirit, etc. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1646 R. Crashaw Musicks Duell in Steps to Temple 106 Shee is plac't Above her selfe, Musicks Enthusiast.

1697 J. Dryden Alexander's Feast vii. 7 The sweet Enthusiast, from her Sacred store, Enlarg'd the former narrow Bounds.

1903 Art Interchange Mar. 61/1 It is indeed a privilege to be an artist,..and the true enthusiast once realizing that he has been dowered with the divine gift..sets himself to the task of hewing out a channel of expression.

c. A person filled with a divine spirit; a person who is divinely inspired. Used in explicit contrast to more familiar senses (esp. senses 1b and 3a), and frequently with reference to the word's etymology.

ΚΠ

1772 J. W. Fletcher Logica Genevensis v. 63 The true enthusiasts, those who are really inspired by the grace and love of God.

1848 N. Brit. Rev. Feb. 214/2 He was an enthusiast in its true and good sense; ‘he was entheat’, as the old poets called it.

1879 R. H. Smith in Sunday Mag. 507 He was an enthusiast..in the best and truest sense of the word, for he was filled with the fulness of God.

2000 Forward (Electronic ed.) 24 Mar. An enthusiast, in its deepest meaning, is someone who carries a ‘God’ within him or her, even if he or she does not believe in God.

a. Originally: a person who intensely favours a particular cause, principle, etc., or who pursues an activity or objective with passion or zeal. Now more mildly: a person who feels or displays keen interest in, passion for, or enjoyment of a particular activity or subject. Frequently with for, in, of, †to, specifying the object of the person's enthusiasm. Before the late 19th cent. frequently with an unfavourable connotation of fanaticism or delusion; cf. sense 1b.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > liking or favourable regard > [noun] > enthusiasm (for something) > enthusiast for person or thing

votary1594

well-willer1607

lief-hebber1653

enthusiast1748

amateur1771

fanatic1790

red-hot1835

freak1908

hound1926

fan1928

televisionary1928

tifoso1949

person1966

prosumer1987

1748 W. Melmoth Lett. by Sir Thomas Fitzosborne I. xv. 73 Many admirers, who were such enthusiasts to antiquity as to adopt her very defects.

1764 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. in Lett. II. xxv. 204 An enthusiast to the discipline of the field.

1797 E. Burke Three Mem. French Affairs 69 At present the King..can send none but the enthusiasts of the system.

1855 J. P. Foote Schools of Cincinnati xi. 102 Cincinnati has always had her share of pro-slavery and anti-slavery enthusiasts, and twice the town has been disgraced by mobs on their account.

1871 J. Morley Carlyle in Crit. Misc. 241 The arbitrary enthusiast for external order.

1902 Public Libraries Nov. 402/1 This is the age of enthusiasts, each with their field, their mission, their association and organ.

1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point xvii. 298 The big business men are such enthusiasts for work.

1983 Irish Times 23 Dec. 2/6 The Badminton Ireland annual is now on sale at £2... It is excellent value and is a must for enthusiasts.

2016 York Press (Nexis) 19 Oct. Enthusiasts of architecture, archaeology, technology, music and art can experience York's heritage as never before.

b. Modified by a preceding noun denoting the cause favoured, the activity pursued, or the subject for which the person has such passion and interest, as football enthusiast, hunting enthusiast, nature enthusiast, etc.orchid enthusiast, railway enthusiast: see the first element.

ΚΠ

1835 N.Y. Spectator 5 Nov. The conduct of the abolition enthusiasts in every part of the country, proves the truth of the foregoing remarks.

1891 County Gentleman 26 Dec. 1781 Doubtless many a fox-hunting enthusiast considered it unfit and impossible to hunt on Thursday, for it was a dull, cold morning.

1938 Pop. Sci. Monthly Nov. 225 (advt.) Here's first news of the great 1939 Harley-Davidson motorcycles—packing great thrills for the red-blooded, sports-loving, outdoor enthusiast.

1971 Times 17 July 12/6 He still follows cricket, but is even more a football enthusiast.

2016 Daily Tel. 12 May 30/6 Nature enthusiasts have been encouraged to look out for Montagu's harrier.

Compounds

attributive and appositive, with the sense ‘of or relating to an enthusiast; that is an enthusiast’. Now chiefly with reference to sense 3a.In some quots. passing into adjectival use.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > inspiration or revelation > [adjective]

inspiredc1450

illumined1526

godly-wise1532

revealed1533

illuminate1563

enthusiast1578

lightsome1587

enthusiastical1588

entheate1603

enthusiac1603

enthusiastic1603

illuminated1606

illightened1609

enthean1612

theopneust1647

illuminative1649

entheous1682

revelational1693

entheal1736

entheastic1804

theopneustic1838

theophanic1884

inspirational1888

theophanous1909

Beatrician1943

society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > inspiration or revelation > [adjective] > relating to fancied inspiration

spritish1538

enthusiastic1578

enthusiastical1607

enthusiast1862

1578 J. Stockwood Serm. Barthelmew Day 174 The Anabaptistes, and Enthusiaste Heretikes of oure tymes, that casting aside the preaching of the worde, will haue all done by Reuelations.

1648 S. Rutherford Surv. Spirituall Antichrist i. v. 21 The Spirit and the Gospel is all one, to the Antinomian, to the Enthusiast Libertines.

1681 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 88 The enthusiast maid of Hatfeild predicted the royall blood should be poysoned.

1746 W. Collins Odes 3 Shall raise a wild Enthusiast Heat.

1824 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. Oct. 424/1 He, whom love's enchantments seize, Pours his enthusiast soul in Beauty's ear!

1862 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner II. 325 In a room that resembled the miserable Barry's, he lived his enthusiast life.

1920 Garden Mag. Dec. 213/1 Everybody has this [species of bellflower] and naturally assumes that his enthusiast neighbor has it too.

1970 Times of India 23 May 12/2 My enthusiast friends are advised, therefore, to read as many of the cricket publications of recent times as possible.

2017 Digit (Nexis) 4 Aug. Gaming laptops appeal to the enthusiast crowd who're more likely to perform manual upgrades.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	enthusiast
释义	enthusiastn. Brit. /ᵻnˈθjuːzɪast/, /ɛnˈθjuːzɪast/, U.S. /ᵻnˈθ(j)uziˌæst/, /ᵻnˈθ(j)uziəst/, /ɛnˈθ(j)uziˌæst/, /ɛnˈθ(j)uziəst/ Forms: α. 1500s–1600s enthusiaste, 1500s–1600s enthysiast, 1500s– enthusiast, 1600s enthousiast, 1600s enthysiaste. β. 1500s–1600s (1800s historical) enthusiastae (plural, in sense 1a). γ. 1600s inthusiast. Also with capital initial. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin enthusiasta; Greek ἐνθουσιαστής. Etymology: < (i) post-classical Latin enthusiasta kind of heretic (5th cent.; also enthysiasta), and its etymon (ii) Hellenistic Greek ἐνθουσιαστής person who is possessed or inspired < ancient Greek ἐνθουσιάζειν (see enthusiasm n.) + -τής, suffix forming agent nouns. The later semantic development shows influence from enthusiasm n.Compare Middle French, French enthousiaste (1544). Specific senses. In sense 1b after German Enthusiast (1524 in Luther in this sense), itself after post-classical Latin enthusiasta . Specific forms. With the γ. forms perhaps compare in- prefix³. 1. a. Church History. In plural and usually with capital initial (also in form Enthusiastae). (A name applied to) the adherents of a supposed ancient Christian sect or movement, regarded as heretical, who reputedly claimed to receive divine communications through prayerful meditation. Now rare.Probably merely an abusive label given to those ascetics who resisted the authority of the Church hierarchy in the name of strict religious practice. The Enthusiasts are frequently identified with the Messalians, or Euchites, a sect which supposedly originated in the 4th cent. in the Near East, but which is also unlikely to have had a formal existence (cf. Messalian n.). ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > enthusiasts > [noun] enthusiast1536 1536 R. Taverner tr. P. Melanchthon Apol. sig. N.vi^v in Confessyon Fayth Germaynes They..in olde tyme whiche were called enthusiastes [L. quemadmodum olim ἐνθουσιασταὶ docebant]..fayned them selues to be inflate and inspired by the diuine influence and power. 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. III. v. iii. 871/1 So that it becommeth vs..not to looke for a secrete inspiration with the heretiques Enthusiastae [L. Enthusiastis]. 1607 S. Hieron Dignitie of Script. ii. 22 There were in the elder times certaine Heretiques called Enthusiasts which pretended..visions, and secret conferences with the spirit of God, and so contemned the written word. 1639 F. Robartes Gods Holy House x. 75 The haeresie of the Messalini otherwise called Euchites and Enthusiastes. 1690 T. Comber Scholastical Hist. ii. i. 45 Those Hereticks called Euchites, and Enthusiasts; upon whom Theodoret is so severe, as to say he believes, they were inspired by the Devil. 1848 J. Torrey tr. A. Neander Gen. Hist. Christian Relig. & Church III. 323 They were called, sometimes,..Enthusiasts, (ενθουσιασταί,) on account of the pretended communications which they received from the Holy Spirit. 1879 R. Thornton St. Ambrose iv. 26 The fanatical Euchites or Enthusiastæ, the Jumpers and Shakers of the fourth century, had begun to disseminate their strange fancies. 1994 Y. Stoyanov Hidden Trad. in Europe ii. 106 The Massalians.., also called Enthusiasts, were an anti-clerical, pietist sect about whose actual teachings very little is known. b. depreciative. A person who falsely or erroneously claims to receive divine communication or inspiration; (a name applied to) a member of any of various Christian movements believing in, or thought to believe in, private divine revelation as opposed to revelation through scripture. From the 18th cent. also in wider sense: a person whose religious or political opinions are regarded as fanatical, radical, or irrational, or who exhibits excessive religious or political fervour. Now historical.Esp. in the 17th and 18th centuries, the term enthusiast was applied disparagingly to Quakers, Methodists, and members of other widespread Christian movements emphasizing direct private communication with God, or rejecting established church government, doctrine, liturgy, etc., as well as to adherents of more radical religious beliefs, such as millenarians and self-proclaimed prophets. Pagitt and other 16th- and 17th-cent. writers sometimes use enthusiasts as though it were the formal name of a contemporary sect (cf. quot. 1645), but this is probably a misrepresentation. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > inspiration or revelation > [noun] > fancied inspiration > person enthusiast1548 melancholist1600 enthusiastic1605 1548 tr. M. Luther Chiefe Articles Christen Faythe sig. E Wherewith we vs defend agaynst the Enthusiastes [Ger. Enthusiasten],..whiche boaste themselues to haue the spirite, without and before the word.., as he of minster didde, and yet many do nowe a dayes. 1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket vi. 328 Sottish Enthusiastes condemne all learning, all premeditation. 1645 E. Pagitt Heresiogr. 31 There are 14. severall sorts of Anabaptists..set downe by Alstedius..viz. Muncerians. Apostolikes... Enthusiasts. [etc.]. 1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness v. x. 158 He was not a true Prophet, but a mere Political Enthusiast of a vafrous and versatil wit, with a little smack of cracktness and Lunacy. 1746 J. Wesley Princ. Methodist farther Explain'd 54 It is the believing those to be Miracles which are not, that constitutes an Enthusiast. 1771 W. Eden Princ. Penal Law xiv. 131 The misdirected, and dangerous zeal of political enthusiasts. 1806 Earl of Westmorland in Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 7 230 The idea of the abolition first originated..among atheists, enthusiasts, jacobins, and such descriptions of persons. 1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics II. x. i. 188 This very Church of Rome incarcerated Molinos and Madame Guyon as dangerous enthusiasts. 1910 Methodist Rev. Nov. 927 Certain there are, declaimers of destiny, enthusiasts,..who cheapen the Scriptures. 1974 PMLA 89 81/2 If the Reformation is to succeed [i.e. in 16th-cent. Zurich], religious soundness and firmness must avert the impending anarchy of the enthusiasts. 2010 16th Cent. Jrnl. 41 1197 Luther had an equal distaste for the arrogance of the Anabaptists/Enthusiasts who ‘claimed to possess the Spirit immediately’. 2. a. A person (supposedly) possessed by a god, demon, spirit, etc.; a person in a state of frenzy attributed to divine inspiration or demonic possession, typically involving speaking in tongues and making wild, uncoordinated movements. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > inspiration or revelation > [noun] > person having seera1382 Alumbrado1600 illuminate1602 enthusiastic1605 enthusian1611 enthusiast1612 inspirado1664 entheastic1678 inspired1749 Maharishi1785 muni1785 rishi1794 Mahatma1882 1612 E. Grimeston tr. P. Matthieu Heroyk Life Henry IV 148 She cried out without any trouble, or such agitations and feare proper to Enthousiasts, Madam, pray vnto God for the King, for they are killing him, and within a while after, Alas, he is dead! 1660 E. Stillingfleet Irenicum i. v. 96 She used not such a strange confused voice and tremblings as they did who were their proper Enthusiasts, as the Sybils and the Pythian prophetess. 1739 J. Lockman tr. A. R. Le Sage Bachelor of Salamanca II. 204 This Master of mine is an Enthusiast, who has a most odd Kind of Frenzy. 1804 tr. V. J. Duval in Universal Mag. 1 Suppl. 735/2 The convulsive movements of the mouth and throat, and the discordant tones which issued from them.., made me take these two Israelites for possessed enthusiasts. 1850 J. Torrey tr. A. Neander Gen. Hist. Christian Relig. & Church VI. 41 Looking upon these enthusiasts [sc. berserkers] as men possessed of evil spirits, he had pronounced a prayer..to confine the power of the demon. 2010 A. Samellas Alienation iii. 200 Aretaeus of Cappadocia named this affliction ‘divine mania’,..saying that, when the enthusiasts had altogether lost their mind, they became free of every worry and happy as if they were god's initiates. †b. figurative. A person who receives artistic inspiration portrayed as coming from a god, muse, spirit, etc. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1646 R. Crashaw Musicks Duell in Steps to Temple 106 Shee is plac't Above her selfe, Musicks Enthusiast. 1697 J. Dryden Alexander's Feast vii. 7 The sweet Enthusiast, from her Sacred store, Enlarg'd the former narrow Bounds. 1903 Art Interchange Mar. 61/1 It is indeed a privilege to be an artist,..and the true enthusiast once realizing that he has been dowered with the divine gift..sets himself to the task of hewing out a channel of expression. c. A person filled with a divine spirit; a person who is divinely inspired. Used in explicit contrast to more familiar senses (esp. senses 1b and 3a), and frequently with reference to the word's etymology. ΚΠ 1772 J. W. Fletcher Logica Genevensis v. 63 The true enthusiasts, those who are really inspired by the grace and love of God. 1848 N. Brit. Rev. Feb. 214/2 He was an enthusiast in its true and good sense; ‘he was entheat’, as the old poets called it. 1879 R. H. Smith in Sunday Mag. 507 He was an enthusiast..in the best and truest sense of the word, for he was filled with the fulness of God. 2000 Forward (Electronic ed.) 24 Mar. An enthusiast, in its deepest meaning, is someone who carries a ‘God’ within him or her, even if he or she does not believe in God. 3. a. Originally: a person who intensely favours a particular cause, principle, etc., or who pursues an activity or objective with passion or zeal. Now more mildly: a person who feels or displays keen interest in, passion for, or enjoyment of a particular activity or subject. Frequently with for, in, of, †to, specifying the object of the person's enthusiasm. Before the late 19th cent. frequently with an unfavourable connotation of fanaticism or delusion; cf. sense 1b. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > liking or favourable regard > [noun] > enthusiasm (for something) > enthusiast for person or thing votary1594 votary1594 well-willer1607 lief-hebber1653 enthusiast1748 amateur1771 fanatic1790 red-hot1835 freak1908 hound1926 fan1928 televisionary1928 tifoso1949 person1966 prosumer1987 1748 W. Melmoth Lett. by Sir Thomas Fitzosborne I. xv. 73 Many admirers, who were such enthusiasts to antiquity as to adopt her very defects. 1764 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. in Lett. II. xxv. 204 An enthusiast to the discipline of the field. 1797 E. Burke Three Mem. French Affairs 69 At present the King..can send none but the enthusiasts of the system. 1855 J. P. Foote Schools of Cincinnati xi. 102 Cincinnati has always had her share of pro-slavery and anti-slavery enthusiasts, and twice the town has been disgraced by mobs on their account. 1871 J. Morley Carlyle in Crit. Misc. 241 The arbitrary enthusiast for external order. 1902 Public Libraries Nov. 402/1 This is the age of enthusiasts, each with their field, their mission, their association and organ. 1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point xvii. 298 The big business men are such enthusiasts for work. 1983 Irish Times 23 Dec. 2/6 The Badminton Ireland annual is now on sale at £2... It is excellent value and is a must for enthusiasts. 2016 York Press (Nexis) 19 Oct. Enthusiasts of architecture, archaeology, technology, music and art can experience York's heritage as never before. b. Modified by a preceding noun denoting the cause favoured, the activity pursued, or the subject for which the person has such passion and interest, as football enthusiast, hunting enthusiast, nature enthusiast, etc.orchid enthusiast, railway enthusiast: see the first element. ΚΠ 1835 N.Y. Spectator 5 Nov. The conduct of the abolition enthusiasts in every part of the country, proves the truth of the foregoing remarks. 1891 County Gentleman 26 Dec. 1781 Doubtless many a fox-hunting enthusiast considered it unfit and impossible to hunt on Thursday, for it was a dull, cold morning. 1938 Pop. Sci. Monthly Nov. 225 (advt.) Here's first news of the great 1939 Harley-Davidson motorcycles—packing great thrills for the red-blooded, sports-loving, outdoor enthusiast. 1971 Times 17 July 12/6 He still follows cricket, but is even more a football enthusiast. 2016 Daily Tel. 12 May 30/6 Nature enthusiasts have been encouraged to look out for Montagu's harrier. Compounds attributive and appositive, with the sense ‘of or relating to an enthusiast; that is an enthusiast’. Now chiefly with reference to sense 3a.In some quots. passing into adjectival use. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > inspiration or revelation > [adjective] inspiredc1450 illumined1526 godly-wise1532 revealed1533 illuminate1563 enthusiast1578 lightsome1587 enthusiastical1588 entheate1603 enthusiac1603 enthusiastic1603 illuminated1606 illightened1609 enthean1612 theopneust1647 illuminative1649 entheous1682 revelational1693 entheal1736 entheastic1804 theopneustic1838 theophanic1884 inspirational1888 theophanous1909 Beatrician1943 society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > inspiration or revelation > [adjective] > relating to fancied inspiration spritish1538 enthusiastic1578 enthusiastical1607 enthusiast1862 1578 J. Stockwood Serm. Barthelmew Day 174 The Anabaptistes, and Enthusiaste Heretikes of oure tymes, that casting aside the preaching of the worde, will haue all done by Reuelations. 1648 S. Rutherford Surv. Spirituall Antichrist i. v. 21 The Spirit and the Gospel is all one, to the Antinomian, to the Enthusiast Libertines. 1681 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 88 The enthusiast maid of Hatfeild predicted the royall blood should be poysoned. 1746 W. Collins Odes 3 Shall raise a wild Enthusiast Heat. 1824 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. Oct. 424/1 He, whom love's enchantments seize, Pours his enthusiast soul in Beauty's ear! 1862 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner II. 325 In a room that resembled the miserable Barry's, he lived his enthusiast life. 1920 Garden Mag. Dec. 213/1 Everybody has this [species of bellflower] and naturally assumes that his enthusiast neighbor has it too. 1970 Times of India 23 May 12/2 My enthusiast friends are advised, therefore, to read as many of the cricket publications of recent times as possible. 2017 Digit (Nexis) 4 Aug. Gaming laptops appeal to the enthusiast crowd who're more likely to perform manual upgrades. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1536
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