a. [f. ZEALOT + -IC; now often assimilated to Gr. ζηλωτικός, f. ζηλωτής zealot.] Of the nature of, or characteristic of, a zealot.
1657. Gauden, J. Watts’ Scribe, Pharisee, etc., To Rdr. He … is void as of all superstitious novelties, so, of all zealotick transports.
1743. J. Morris, Serm., iv. 90. In such a legal and zelotic, such a passionate and fierce … spirit.
1889. J. B. Bury, Later Roman Empire, I. i. 3. We have the zelotic dogmatism of Epiphanes.
1899. Stalker, Christol. Jesus, iv. 152. Such zealotic enthusiasm.
1916. P. T. Forsyth, in Contemp. Rev., June, 762. The Pharisees were doing that passionately. It was their whole zealotic programme about which they had no misgivings.
So † Zelotical a.
1630. in Crt. & Times Chas. I. (1848), II. 80. One Leviston, a zealotical Scotsman.
a. 1638. Mede, Par. Peter, Wks. III. (1672), 611. The zelotical Anti-chiliasts.
1694. Strype, Cranmer, III. xix. 373. Dr. Marshal Dean of Christ’s-Church, a most furious and zelotical Man.
