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  • adjective Obsolete form of fanatic.
  • noun Obsolete form of fanatic.

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Examples

  • Dr Robertson said, the notions of Eupham Macallan. a fanatick woman, of whom Lord Hailes gives a sketch, were still prevalent among some of the Presbyterians; and therefore it was right in Lord

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

  • In the fourth class we have the journalists, temporal and spiritual: Elias Ashmole, William Lilly, George Whitefield, John Wesley, and a thousand other old women and fanatick writers of memoirs and meditations. '

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • Dr. Robertson said, the notions of Eupham Macallan, a fanatick woman, of whom Lord Hailes gives a sketch, were still prevalent among some of the Presbyterians; and therefore it was right in Lord Hailes, a man of known piety, to undeceive them [95].

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • Who, in a case of eminent competition, chose duty before interest; and when the judge grew inconsistent with the justice, preferred rather to be constant to sure principles, than to an unconstant government: and to retreat to an innocent and honourable privacy, than to sit and act iniquity by a law; and make your age and conscience (the one venerable, the other sacred) drudges to the tyranny of fanatick, perjured usurpers.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823

  • John Wesley, and a thousand other old women and fanatick writers of memoirs and meditations. '

    Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767

  • Dr Robertson said, the notions of Eupham Macallan. a fanatick woman, of whom Lord Hailes gives a sketch, were still prevalent among some of the Presbyterians; and therefore it was right in Lord Hailes, a man of known piety, to undeceive them.

    The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. James Boswell 1767

  • Achitophel, which "he thinks a little hard upon his fanatick patrons;" and charges him with borrowing the plan of his Arthur from the preface to

    Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746

  • Here was also my old acquaintance, Will Swan, to see me, who continues a factious fanatick still, and I do use him civilly, in expectation that those fellows may grow great again.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Here was also my old acquaintance, Will Swan, to see me, who continues a factious fanatick still, and I do use him civilly, in expectation that those fellows may grow great again.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys, Jun/Jul 1668 Pepys, Samuel 1668

  • Here was also my old acquaintance, Will Swan, to see me, who continues a factious fanatick still, and I do use him civilly, in expectation that those fellows may grow great again.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1668 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

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