v. Also fanaticise. [f. as prec. + -IZE.]
1. trans. To infect with fanaticism; to render fanatical, make a fanatic of; to infuriate.
1812. W. Taylor, in Monthly Rev., LXVII. 148. The Duke of Aiguillon, as the enemy of sedition, accused the parliamentary zealots of having fanaticized the assassin.
1848. Clough, Amours de Voyage, I. 106.
| These, that fanaticized Europe, which now can forget them, release not | |
| This, their choicest of prey, this Italy. |
1860. The Saturday Review, X. 22 Sept., 357/2. The object is to foment demonstrations of sympathy for the Pope amongst the populace, and to fanaticize the mob against the day of trial.
2. intr. To act as a fanatic.
1715. M. Davies, Athenæ Britannicæ, I. 269. The last Day and Antichrist were at hand, and not far off, let them take heed least a worse Prophecy than that of Mr. Brown’s overtake them in that last Day, for fanaticizing and rejecting the express Words of Scripture, and all the primitive Christian Authors.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., III. III. ii. A man, once committed headlong to republican or any other Transcendentalism, and fighting and fanaticising amid a Nation of his like, becomes as it were enveloped in an ambient atmosphere of Transcendentalism and Delirium.
1883. The British Quarterly Review, Oct., 403. He [Roden Noel] loves humanity as a whole too truly to fanaticise for a class.
Hence Fanaticized, ppl. a.
1827. Southey, History of the Peninsular War, II. 186. About two hundred, whom the French praised in reality when they intended to depreciate them by calling them the most fanaticised, collected near the Cathedral, and fought till the last man was cut down.
1873. Lord Lyttelton, On the Future State of Souls, in The Contemporary Review, XXI. May, 912. But Nemesis was that day too strong for a party of men honest but fanaticized, and against the majority of 322 there were found 84 who did not shrink from what had been intended as a practical reversal of the world-famous deed of 1843.
