Obs. [ad. F. fanatisme] = FANATICISM.
1680. Refl. late Libel on Curse-ye-Meroz, 38. Whimsies, Fancies, Fopperies, and Phanatismes.
1686. Popery Anatomis’d, 15. All mixture of Calvinism and Fanatism.
1797. History of Europe, in The Annual Register, 78/2. France, crowned with victory, and surrounded with immortal glory, was beginning to reap the fruits of the successes obtained by its invincible defenders; when agriculture, commerce, public credit, confidence and security, began to revive, that was the moment pitched upon to rekindle domestic animosities, to re-establish superstition, and reorganize the power of fanaticism, to open avenues for the return of emigrants, to give the signal of civil war, and, by thus infusing fresh hopes into the foreign enemies of the commonwealth, to retard that peace, which it was on the point of securing.
1800. T. Jefferson, Letter to Priestley, 18 Jan., in Writings (1850), IV. 311. How deeply have I been chagrined and mortified at the persecutions which fanatism and monarchy have excited against you, even here!
