Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
enthusiastic
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- adjective obsolete
enthusiastic
Etymologies
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Examples
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He who wishes to be successful, or happy, ought to be enthusiastical, that is to say, very keen in all the occupations or diversions of life.
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He who wishes to be successful, or happy, ought to be enthusiastical, that is to say, very keen in all the occupations or diversions of life.
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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He who wishes to be successful, or happy, ought to be enthusiastical, that is to say, very keen in all the occupations or diversions of life.
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. James Boswell 1767
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The mutual and enthusiastical affection betwixt the young men was well known to him; and he concluded that if the precarious state of
Redgauntlet 2008
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An ordinary gentleman-farmer will be satisfied with looking at his fields once or twice a day: an enthusiastical farmer will be constantly employed on them; will have his mind earnestly engaged; will talk perpetually of them.
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And I do not know but what hath been delivered may be looked on as fanatical and enthusiastical; yet is there no other reason why it should be so, but only because it is taken from Scripture.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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No man, I say, by his mere sight and conduct, can know and understand aright the true nature of evangelical holiness; and it is, therefore, no wonder if the doctrine of it be despised by many as an enthusiastical fancy.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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And this generation is such as indeed despise all that is spoken about the pollution of sin and its purification, and deride it as enthusiastical, or a fulsome metaphor not to be understood.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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And as the doctrine is exploded, so all experience of the work itself in the souls of men is decried as fanatical and enthusiastical.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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In showing what is the especial nature of this work, what are the effects of it upon our minds, and how it differs from all enthusiastical inspirations, and what is the true exercise of our minds in compliance therewith.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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