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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1633-1681
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Phanaticall, a. [e.m.E. fanaticall (1550), phanaticall (1589), f. Phanatik a.] Of persons (espec. Protestant zealots) or their beliefs, etc.: Characterized or prompted by fanaticism. = Phanatik a. b. — 1681 Inverness Rec. II. 300.
All such principles doctrines or practises whither popish or phanaticall which are … inconsistant with the said protestant religione — 1633 Sc. Ch. Hist. Soc. Rec. IX. 123.
That … he and all other ministers were commandit to give in lists to the bishop and Privy Councill … of all phanaticall separatists within ther parishes
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