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enthusiastic, a. and n.|ɛnˌθjuːzɪˈæstɪk|
[ad. Gr. ἐνθουσιαστικ-ός, f. ἐνθουσιάζειν: see prec.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to enthusiasm, full of or characterized by enthusiasm.
†1. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, possession by a deity. Also fig. Obs.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1348 For an instrument..to set it [divination] aworke, we allow a spirit or winde, and an exhalation enthusiasticke. 1647Crashaw Poems 112 Enthusiastic flames, such as can give Marrow to my plump genius. 1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. iii. i. 12 The Forme..wherein the first Divine Poesie was delivered, was Enthusiastic. 1849Fitzgerald tr. Whitaker's Disp. 295 We do not speak of any enthusiastic influence of the Spirit.
†2. Pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of mystical delusions in religion. Obs.
1690Temple Ess. Heroic Virtue Wks. 1731 I. 220 Being built upon Foundations wholly Enthusiastick, and thereby very unaccountable to common Reason. 1727Swift Let. Eng. Tongue, During the usurpation..an infusion of enthusiastic jargon prevailed. 1748Hartley Observ. Man ii. ii. 194 The several Enthusiastic Sects that arise from time to time among Christians.
†b. transf. Irrational, ‘quixotic’. Obs.
1692Dryden St. Euremont's Ess. 34 The Decii who sacrificed themselves for the good of a Society whom they went to forsake, seem to me truly enthusiastick. 1775Johnson Tax. no Tyr. 10 An absurd and enthusiastick contempt of interest.
3. Of feelings, convictions, etc.: That is of the nature of, that amounts to, enthusiasm 3; intensely ardent, rapturous. Of persons, their temperaments, actions, language, etc.: Characterized by or manifesting enthusiasm 3.
1786Burke W. Hastings Wks. 1813 XII. 401 Their military and enthusiastick spirit. 1791― Lett. Member Nat. Assemb. Wks. VI. 39 A style, glowing, animated, enthusiastick. 1793Gouv. Morris in Sparks Life & Writ. (1832) II. 276 The English will be wound up to a pitch of enthusiastic horror against France. 1808Sir John Moore in Jas. Moore Camp. Spain (1809) 294 In aid of an enthusiastic brave people. 1841Lane Arab. Nts. I. 72 Enthusiastic admirers of literature. 1876Green Short Hist. vii. 361 A burst of enthusiastic joy hailed the accession of Elizabeth.
†B. n. = enthusiast 1, 2 b. Obs.
1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God 56 There we saw Enthusiastikes, persons rapt with fury. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 326 (T.), The dervis and other santoons, or enthusiasticks. 1692Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) II. 547 Some troopes were ordered to suppresse and seize upon the ring-leaders of these enthusiasticks. 1707E. Ward Hud. Rediv. (1715) II. ix, Enthusiasticks flock'd in Shoales, To fight, not for their Lives, but Souls. |