Also 6 Zamzumym, Samsumim, 7 Zanzummin(e, -im. A name of ‘a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims’ (Deut. ii. 21); used allusively or fig.
1530. Tindale, Deut. ii. 20. That also was taken for a londe of geauntes and geauntes dwelt therin in olde tyme, and the Ammonites called them Zamzumyms. Ibid. (1530), Answ. Sir T. More’s Dial., Pref., Wks. (1573), 249/1. Haue they not compelled the Emperours of the earth … to be their tormentours, and the Samsumims them selues do but imagine mischief and inspire them.
1628. Burton, Anat. Mel., II. iii. II. (ed. 3), 290. Aiax, Caligula, and the rest of those great Zanzummins, or giganticall Anakims.
1642. Drumm. of Hawth., Skiamachia, Wks. (1711), 201. Such numbers of arm’d enemies, so many Nimrods, Zanzummims, adversaries to our opinions.
1660. England’s Mon. Asserted, 9. Those two great Zanzummines of Church and State, the Arch-bishop of Canterbury, and the Earl of Strafford.
