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- verb Alternative spelling of
fanaticize .
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Examples
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Spaniards to the sanguinary proceedings of the Inquisition, and to fanaticise the people.
The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, June, 1880 Various
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These phantasies [_vertiges_] will fanaticise the people, who will flatten out all resistance.
Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918
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To impel the people to passion there must be some slight illusion mingled with the truth; reality alone was too chilling to fanaticise the human mind; it is only roused to enthusiasm by things something out of nature.
History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution Alphonse de Lamartine 1829
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However it served to throw dust into the eyes of the people and to fanaticise them, while to the knowing ones it gave a geographical and preponderant line of the Patomac and Ohio, throwing 12.
Letters 1760
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