English Dictionary: fanaticism | by the DICT Development Group |
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Faint \Faint\ (f[amac]nt), a. [Compar. {Fainter} (-[etil]r); superl. {Faintest}.] [OE. feint, faint, false, faint, F. feint, p. p. of feindre to feign, suppose, hesitate. See {Feign}, and cf. {Feint}.] 1. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst. 2. Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed; as, [bd]Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.[b8] --Old Proverb. 3. Lacking distinctness; hardly perceptible; striking the senses feebly; not bright, or loud, or sharp, or forcible; weak; as, a faint color, or sound. 4. Performed, done, or acted, in a weak or feeble manner; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy; slight; as, faint efforts; faint resistance. The faint prosecution of the war. --Sir J. Davies. | |
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Faintish \Faint"ish\, a. Slightly faint; somewhat faint. -- {Faint"ish*ness}, n. | |
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Faintish \Faint"ish\, a. Slightly faint; somewhat faint. -- {Faint"ish*ness}, n. | |
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Faints \Faints\, n.pl. The impure spirit which comes over first and last in the distillation of whisky; -- the former being called the strong faints, and the latter, which is much more abundant, the weak faints. This crude spirit is much impregnated with fusel oil. --Ure. | |
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Fanatic \Fa*nat"ic\, a. [L. fanaticus inspired by divinity, enthusiastic, frantic, fr. fanum fane: cf. F. fanatique. See {Fane}.] Pertaining to, or indicating, fanaticism; extravagant in opinions; ultra; unreasonable; excessively enthusiastic, especially on religious subjects; as, fanatic zeal; fanatic notions. But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last. --T. Moore. | |
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Fanatic \Fa*nat"ic\, n. A person affected by excessive enthusiasm, particularly on religious subjects; one who indulges wild and extravagant notions of religion. There is a new word, coined within few months, called fanatics, which, by the close stickling thereof, seemeth well cut out and proportioned to signify what is meant thereby, even the sectaries of our age. --Fuller (1660). Fanatics are governed rather by imagination than by judgment. --Stowe. | |
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Fanatical \Fa*nat"ic*al\, a. Characteristic of, or relating to, fanaticism; fanatic. -{Fa*nat"ic*al*ly}, adv. -- {Fa*nat"ic*al*ness}, n. | |
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Fanatical \Fa*nat"ic*al\, a. Characteristic of, or relating to, fanaticism; fanatic. -{Fa*nat"ic*al*ly}, adv. -- {Fa*nat"ic*al*ness}, n. | |
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Fanatical \Fa*nat"ic*al\, a. Characteristic of, or relating to, fanaticism; fanatic. -{Fa*nat"ic*al*ly}, adv. -- {Fa*nat"ic*al*ness}, n. | |
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Fanaticism \Fa*nat"i*cism\, n. [Cf. {Fanatism}.] Excessive enthusiasm, unreasoning zeal, or wild and extravagant notions, on any subject, especially religion; religious frenzy. | |
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Fanaticize \Fa*nat"i*cize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fanaticized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fanaticizing}.] To cause to become a fanatic. | |
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Fanaticize \Fa*nat"i*cize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fanaticized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fanaticizing}.] To cause to become a fanatic. | |
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Fanaticize \Fa*nat"i*cize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fanaticized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fanaticizing}.] To cause to become a fanatic. | |
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Fanatism \Fan"a*tism\, n. [Cf. F. fanatisme. Cf. {Fanaticism}.] Fanaticism. [R.] --Gibbon. | |
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Fantasia \Fan*ta"si*a\, n. [It. See {Fancy}.] (Mus.) A continuous composition, not divided into what are called movements, or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design, but in which the author's fancy roves unrestricted by set form. | |
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Fantasied \Fan"ta*sied\, a. [From {Fantasy}.] Filled with fancies or imaginations. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Fantasy \Fan"ta*sy\, n.; pl. {Fantasies}. [See {Fancy}.] 1. Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor. Is not this something more than fantasy ? --Shak. A thousand fantasies Being to throng into my memory. --Milton. 2. Fantastic designs. Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread. --Hawthorne. | |
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Phantasm \Phan"tasm\, n. [L. phantasma. See {Phantom}, and cf. {Fantasm}.] [Spelt also {fantasm}.] 1. An image formed by the mind, and supposed to be real or material; a shadowy or airy appearance; sometimes, an optical illusion; a phantom; a dream. They be but phantasms or apparitions. --Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A mental image or representation of a real object; a fancy; a notion. --Cudworth. Figures or little features, of which the description had produced in you no phantasm or expectation. --Jer. Taylor. | |
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Fantasm \Fan"tasm\, n. [See {Phantasm}, {Fancy}.] Same as {Phantasm}. | |
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Phantasm \Phan"tasm\, n. [L. phantasma. See {Phantom}, and cf. {Fantasm}.] [Spelt also {fantasm}.] 1. An image formed by the mind, and supposed to be real or material; a shadowy or airy appearance; sometimes, an optical illusion; a phantom; a dream. They be but phantasms or apparitions. --Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A mental image or representation of a real object; a fancy; a notion. --Cudworth. Figures or little features, of which the description had produced in you no phantasm or expectation. --Jer. Taylor. | |
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Fantasm \Fan"tasm\, n. [See {Phantasm}, {Fancy}.] Same as {Phantasm}. | |
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Fantast \Fan"tast\, n. One whose manners or ideas are fantastic. [R.] --Coleridge. | |
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Fantastic \Fan*tas"tic\, a. [F. fantastique, fr. Gr. [?][?][?][?][?][?][?][?][?][?][?] able to represent, fr. [?][?][?][?][?][?][?][?][?] to make visible. See {Fancy}.] 1. Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical. 2. Having the nature of a phantom; unreal. --Shak. 3. Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress. 4. Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque. There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high. --T. Gray. Syn: Fanciful; imaginative; ideal; visionary; capricious; chimerical; whimsical; queer. See {Fanciful}. | |
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Fantastic \Fan*tas"tic\, n. A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop. --Milton. Our fantastics, who, having a fine watch, take all ocasions to drow it out to be seen. --Fuller. | |
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Fantastical \Fan*tas"tic*al\, a. Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic. | |
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Fantasticality \Fan*tas`ti*cal"i*ty\, n. Fantastically. [Obs.] | |
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Fantastically \Fan*tas"tic*al*ly\, adv. In a fantastic manner. the letter A, in scarlet, fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom. --Hawthorne. | |
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Fantastic-alness \Fan*tas"tic-al*ness\, n. The quality of being fantastic. | |
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Fantasticism \Fan*tas"ti*cism\, n. The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality. --Ruskin. | |
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Fantasticly \Fan*tas"tic*ly\, adv. Fantastically. [Obs.] | |
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Fantasticness \Fan*tas"tic*ness\, n. Fantasticalness. [Obs.] | |
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Fantasy \Fan"ta*sy\, n.; pl. {Fantasies}. [See {Fancy}.] 1. Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor. Is not this something more than fantasy ? --Shak. A thousand fantasies Being to throng into my memory. --Milton. 2. Fantastic designs. Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread. --Hawthorne. | |
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Fantasy \Fan"ta*sy\, v. t. To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy. [Obs.] --Cavendish. Which he doth most fantasy. --Robynson (More's Utopia). | |
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Fantigue \Fan*tigue"\, Fantique \Fan*tique"\, n. [Written also {fanteague}, {fanteeg}, etc.] [Cf. {Fantod}.] State of worry or excitment; fidget; ill humor. [Prov. Eng.] --Dickens. | |
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Fantigue \Fan*tigue"\, Fantique \Fan*tique"\, n. [Written also {fanteague}, {fanteeg}, etc.] [Cf. {Fantod}.] State of worry or excitment; fidget; ill humor. [Prov. Eng.] --Dickens. | |
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Fantigue \Fan*tigue"\, Fantique \Fan*tique"\, n. [Written also {fanteague}, {fanteeg}, etc.] [Cf. {Fantod}.] State of worry or excitment; fidget; ill humor. [Prov. Eng.] --Dickens. | |
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Fantigue \Fan*tigue"\, Fantique \Fan*tique"\, n. [Written also {fanteague}, {fanteeg}, etc.] [Cf. {Fantod}.] State of worry or excitment; fidget; ill humor. [Prov. Eng.] --Dickens. | |
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d8Femme \[d8]Femme\ (? [or] ?), n. [F.] A woman. See {Feme}, n. {Femme de chambre}. [F.] A lady's maid; a chambermaid. | |
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Fen \Fen\, n. [AS. fen, fenn, marsh, mud, dirt; akin to D. veen, OFries. fenne, fene, OHG. fenna, G. fenn, Icel. fen, Goth. fani mud.] Low land overflowed, or covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy land; moor; marsh. 'Mid reedy fens wide spread. --Wordsworth. Note: Fen is used adjectively with the sense of belonging to, or of the nature of, a fen or fens. {Fen boat}, a boat of light draught used in marshes. {Fen duck} (Zo[94]l.), a wild duck inhabiting fens; the shoveler. [Prov. Eng.] {Fen fowl} (Zo[94]l.), any water fowl that frequent fens. {Fen goose} (Zo[94]l.), the graylag goose of Europe. [Prov. Eng.] {Fen land}, swamp land. | |
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Fiants \Fi"ants\, n. [F. fiente dung.] The dung of the fox, wolf, boar, or badger. | |
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Fiendish \Fiend"ish\, a. Like a fiend; diabolically wicked or cruel; infernal; malignant; devilish; hellish. -- {Fiend"ish*ly}, adv. -- {Fiend"ish*ness}, n. | |
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Fiendish \Fiend"ish\, a. Like a fiend; diabolically wicked or cruel; infernal; malignant; devilish; hellish. -- {Fiend"ish*ly}, adv. -- {Fiend"ish*ness}, n. | |
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Fiendish \Fiend"ish\, a. Like a fiend; diabolically wicked or cruel; infernal; malignant; devilish; hellish. -- {Fiend"ish*ly}, adv. -- {Fiend"ish*ness}, n. | |
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d8Fomes \[d8]Fo"mes\, n.; pl. {Fomites}. [L. fomes, -itis, touch-wood, tinder.] (Med.) Any substance supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs; as, woolen clothes are said to be active fomites. | |
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Fond \Fond\, a. [Compar. {Fonder}; superl. {Fondest}.] [For fonned, p. p. of OE. fonnen to be foolish. See {Fon}.] 1. Foolish; silly; simple; weak. [Archaic] Grant I may never prove so fond To trust man on his oath or bond. --Shak. 2. Foolishly tender and loving; weakly indulgent; over-affectionate. 3. Affectionate; loving; tender; -- in a good sense; as, a fond mother or wife. --Addison. 4. Loving; much pleased; affectionately regardful, indulgent, or desirous; longing or yearning; -- followed by of (formerly also by on). More fond on her than she upon her love. --Shak. You are as fond of grief as of your child. --Shak. A great traveler, and fond of telling his adventures. --Irving. 5. Doted on; regarded with affection. [R.] Nor fix on fond abodes to circumscribe thy prayer. --Byron. 6. Trifling; valued by folly; trivial. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Fumade \Fu*made"\, Fumado \Fu*ma"do\, n.; pl. {Fumades}, {Fumadoes}. [Sp. fumodo smoked, p. p. of fumar to smoke, fr. L. fumare. See {Fume}, v. i.] A salted and smoked fish, as the pilchard. | |
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Fumade \Fu*made"\, Fumado \Fu*ma"do\, n.; pl. {Fumades}, {Fumadoes}. [Sp. fumodo smoked, p. p. of fumar to smoke, fr. L. fumare. See {Fume}, v. i.] A salted and smoked fish, as the pilchard. | |
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Fumed oak \Fumed oak\ (Cabinetwork) Oak given a weathered appearance by exposure in an air-tight compartment to fumes of ammonia from uncorked cans, being first given a coat of filler. | |
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Fumitez \Fu"mi*tez`\, n. (Bot.) Fumitory. [Obs.] | |
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fine adjuster maintenance}, also known as a "hammer". (1999-01-15) | |
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Finite State Automata {Finite State Machine} | |
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Finite State Automaton {Finite State Machine} | |
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Finite State Machine Automaton", "transducer") An {abstract machine} consisting of a set of {states} (including the initial state), a set of input events, a set of output events, and a state transition function. The function takes the current state and an input event and returns the new set of output events and the next state. Some states may be designated as "terminal states". The state machine can also be viewed as a function which maps an ordered sequence of input events into a corresponding sequence of (sets of) output events. A {deterministic} FSM (DFA) is one where the next state is uniquely determinied by a single input event. The next state of a {nondeterministic} FSM (NFA) depends not only on the current input event, but also on an arbitrary number of subsequent input events. Until these subsequent events occur it is not possible to determine which state the machine is in. It is possible to automatically translate any nondeterministic FSM into a deterministic one which will produce the same output given the same input. Each state in the DFA represents the set of states the NFA might be in at a given time. In a probabilistic FSM [proper name?], there is a predetermined {probability} of each next state given the current state and input (compare {Markov chain}). The terms "acceptor" and "transducer" are used particularly in language theory where automata are often considered as {abstract machines} capable of recognising a language (certain sequences of input events). An acceptor has a single {Boolean} output and accepts or rejects the input sequence by outputting true or false respectively, whereas a transducer translates the input into a sequence of output events. FSMs are used in {computability theory} and in some practical applications such as {regular expressions} and digital logic design. See also {state transition diagram}, {Turing Machine}. [J.H. Conway, "regular algebra and finite machines", 1971, Eds Chapman & Hall]. [S.C. Kleene, "Representation of events in nerve nets and finite automata", 1956, Automata Studies. Princeton]. [Hopcroft & Ullman, 1979, "Introduction to automata theory, languages and computations", Addison-Wesley]. [M. Crochemore "tranducters and repetitions", Theoritical. Comp. Sc. 46, 1986]. (2001-09-22) |