enthundert (enthunder)

[ Against them all she proudly did enthunder , Until her masts were beaten overboard. Mir. for Mags . , p. 850. enthuse (en-thūz'), v.; pret. and pp. enthused, ppr. enthusing. [A umed as the appar. basis of enthusiasm, enthusiastic.] I. trans. To make enthusiastic; move with enthusiasm: as, he quite enthused his hearers. [Colloq.] Being touched with a spark of poetic fire from heaven, and enthused by the African's fondne for all that is conspicuous in dre , he had conceived for himself the creation of a unique garment which should symbolize in perfection the claims and consolations of his apostolic office. erroneous. as enthusiastic, 1. [Now rare.] If there be any seeming extravagance in the case, I must Very extravagant, therefore, and unwarrantable are comfort myself the best I can, and consider that all sound those flights of devotion which some enthusiastical saints love and admiration is enthusiasm : the transports of poets, the sublime of orators, the rapture of musicians, the high have indulged themselves in. strains of the virtuosi, all mere enthusiasm ! Even learn- Bp. Atterbury , Works, I. ix. ing itself, the love of arts and curiosities, the spirit of enthusiastically (en-thu-zi-as'ti-kal-i), adv . travellers and adventurers, gallantry, war, heroism all, In an enthusiastic manner; with enthusiasm. all enthusiasm! Shaftesbury, The Moralists, iii. § 2. Enthusiasm is that state of mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment. War burton , Divine Legation, v., App. It was found that enthusiasm was a more potent ally than science and munitions of war without it. Emerson, Harvard Com. A new religious enthusiasm was awakening throughout Europe: an enthusiasm which showed itself in the reform of monasticism, in a pa ion for pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and in the foundation of religious houses. J. R. Green, Conq. of Eng., p. 495. 3. An experience or a manifestation of exalted appreciation or devotion; an expre ion or a feeling of exalted admiration, imagination, or the like: in this sense with a plural: as, his enthusiasms were now all extinguished; the en thusiasm of impa ioned oratory. He [Cowley] was the first who imparted to English numbers the enthusiasm of the greater ode, and the gaiety of the le . ardor, pa ion, devotion. Johnson, Cowley. =Syn. 2. Earnestne , Zeal, etc. (see eagerne ); warmth, enthusiast (en-thu'zi-ast), n. [= D. G. Dan. enthusiast Sw.entusiast , F.enthousiaste = Sp. entusiasta = Pg. enthusiast a = It. entusiasta , en tusiaste , ἐνθουσιαστής , an enthusiast, a zealot, ἐνθουσιάζειν : see enthusiasm .] 1. One who imagines he has special or supernatural converse with God, or that he is divinely instructed or commi ioned. [Archaic.] Let an enthusiast be principled that he or his teacher is inspired, and acted on by an immediate communication of the Divine Spirit, and you in vain bring the evidence of clear reasons against his doctrine. Locke . 2. One who is given to or characterized by enthusiasm; one whose mind is excited and whose feelings are engro ed in devotion to a belief or a principle, or the pursuit of an object; one who is swayed to a great or an undue extent by emotion in regard to anything; a person of ardent zeal. Chapman seems to have been of an arrogant turn, and an enthusiast in poetry. Pope, Pref. to Iliad. 'Tis like the wondrous strain That round a lonely ruin swells, Which wandering on the echoing shore The enthusiast hears at evening. Shelley, Queen Mab, i. The noblest enthusiast cannot help identifying himself more or le with the object of his enthusiasm; he measures the advance of his principles by his own succe . H. N. Oxenham , Short Studies, p. 23. He [John Oxen bridge) preached very enthusiastically in several places in his travels to and fro. Wood, Athenæ Oxon. I became enthusiastically fond of a sequestered life. V. Knoz , E ays, xxix.