FanaticThose transported with religious or temple madness. Among the Romans there were certain persons who attended the temples and fell into strange fits, in which they pretended to see spectres, and uttered what were termed predictions. (Latin, fanum, a temple.) That wild energy which leads The enthusiast to fanatic deeds. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Fanatic from Infoplease:
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