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zelotic, zealotic, a.|ziːˈlɒtɪk|
[f. zealot + -ic; now often assimilated to Gr. ζηλωτικός, f. ζηλωτής zealot.]
Of the nature of, or characteristic of, a zealot.
1657Gauden F. Watts' Scribe, Pharisee, etc. To Rdr., He..is void as of all superstitious novelties, so, of all zealotick transports. 1743J. Morris Serm. iv. 90 In such a legal and zelotic, such a passionate and fierce..spirit. 1889J. B. Bury Later Roman Empire I. i. 3 We have the zelotic dogmatism of Epiphanes. 1899Stalker Christol. Jesus iv. 152 Such zealotic enthusiasm. 1916P. T. Forsyth in Contemp. Rev. June 762 The Pharisees were doing that passionately. It was their whole zealotic programme about which they had no misgivings.
So † zeˈlotical a.
1630in Crt. & Times Chas. I (1848) II. 80 One Leviston, a zealotical Scotsman. a1638Mede Par. Peter Wks. iii. (1672) 611 The zelotical Anti-chiliasts. 1694Strype Cranmer iii. xix. 373 Dr. Marshal Dean of Christ's-Church, a most furious and zelotical Man. |