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y by his zeal; one absorbed in devotion to anything; an enthusiast; a fanatical partisan. Zealots for the one [tradition] were in hostile array against zealots for the other. Sir J. Stephen. In Ayrshire, Clydesdale, Nithisdale, Annandale, every parish was visited by these turbulent zealots. Macaulay.…

Like, or suitable to, a zealot; ardently zealous. [R.] Strype.

The character or conduct of a zealot; zealotry.

A zealot. [Obs.] Howell.

The character and behavior of a zealot; excess of zeal; fanatical devotion to a cause. Enthusiasm, visionariness, seems the tendency of the German; zeal, zealotry, of the English; fanaticism, of the French. Coleridge.

A zealot. "Simon the Canaanite." Matt. x. 4.

An enthusiast; a zealot. [Obs.]

impervious to water or air. This gulf impassable, impervious. Milton. The minds of these zealots were absolutely impervious. Macaulay.

One earnestly devoted or attached to a religion; a religious zealot. The chief actors on one side were, and were to be, the Puritan religionists. Palfrey. It might be that an Antinomian, a Quaker, or other heterodoreligionists, was to be scourged out of the town. Hawthorne.

hink so," is the whole residuum . . . after evaporating the prodigious pretensions of the zealot demagogue. L. Taylor.

The chief person; the most prominent one. Other . . . aspired to be the top of zealots. Milton.

Unable to comprehend. Narrow-spirited, uncomprehensive zealots. South.

d sometimes by inferences or something consequent. Are not those found to be the greatest zealots who are most notoriously ignorant whereas true zeal should always begin with true knowledge. Sprat.

A zealot. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

One who is zealous; a zealot; an enthusiast. [Obs.] To certain zealants, all speech of pacification is odious. Bacon.