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Excessive enthusiasm, unreasoning zeal, or wild and extravagant notions, on any subject, especially religion; religious frenzy. Syn. -- See Superstition.

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  • SUPERSTITIONIST
    One addicted to superstition. "Blind superstitionists." Dr. H. More.
  • RAVENER
    1. One who, or that which, ravens or plunders. Gower. 2. A bird of prey, as the owl or vulture. Holland.
  • RAVISHER
    One who ravishes .
  • RAVENOUS
    1. Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture. 2. Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire. -- Rav"en*ous*ly, adv. -- Rav"en*ous*ness, n.
  • RAVELIN
    A detached work with two embankments with make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune and half-moon.
  • RAVEN
    A large black passerine bird , similar to the crow, but larger. It is native of the northern part of Europe, Asia and America, and is noted for its sagacity. Sea raven , the cormorant. (more info) Icel. hrafn, Dan. ravn, and perhaps to L. corvus,
  • RAVENING
    Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion. Luke xi. 39.
  • RAVISHING
    Rapturous; transporting.
  • CREDULITY
    Readiness of belief; a disposition to believe on slight evidence. That implict credulity is the mark of a feeble mind will not be disputed. Sir W. Hamilton.
  • RAVAGER
    One who, or that which, ravages or lays waste; spoiler.
  • RAVEL
    1. To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be relieved of intricacy. 2. To fall into perplexity and confusion. Till, by their own perplexities involved, They ravel more, still less resolved. Milton. 3. To make investigation
  • RAVAGE
    Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time. Would one think 't were possible for love To make such ravage in a noble
  • RAVER
    One who raves.
  • OBSTINACY
    1. A fixedness in will, opinion, or resolution that can not be shaken at all, or only with great difficulty; firm and usually unreasonable adherence to an opinion, purpose, or system; unyielding disposition; stubborness; pertinacity; persistency;
  • RAVENALA
    A genus of plants related to the banana. Note: Ravenala Madagascariensis, the principal species, is an unbranched tree with immense oarlike leaves growing alternately from two sides of the stem. The sheathing bases of the leafstalks collect and
  • RAVELER
    One who ravels.
  • PHARISAISM
    1. The notions, doctrines, and conduct of the Pharisees, as a sect. Sharp. 2. Rigid observance of external forms of religion, without genuine piety; hypocrisy in religion; a censorious, self-righteous spirit in matters of morals or manners. "A
  • RAVE
    One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.
  • FANATICISM
    Excessive enthusiasm, unreasoning zeal, or wild and extravagant notions, on any subject, especially religion; religious frenzy. Syn. -- See Superstition.
  • SUPERSTITION
    originally, a standing still over or by a thing; hence, amazement, wonder, dread, especially of the divine or supernatural, fr. superstare to stand over; super over + stare to stand. See Super-, 1. An excessive reverence for, or fear of, that which
  • PARAVAIL
    At the bottom; lowest. Cowell. Note: In feudal law, the tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is immediate tenant to one who holds over of another. Wharton.
  • GRAVIDATION
    Gravidity.
  • MORAVIAN
    Of or pertaining to Moravia, or to the United Brethren. See Moravian, n.
  • GRAVES
    The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
  • MARGRAVATE; MARGRAVIATE
    The territory or jurisdiction of a margrave.
  • GRAVEDIGGER
    See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
  • TRAVEL
    1. To labor; to travail. Hooker. 2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets. 3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health;
  • AGGRAVATING
    1. Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances. 2. Exasperating; provoking; irritating. A thing at once ridiculous and aggravating. J. Ingelow.
  • WILDGRAVE
    A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott.
  • DRAVIDIAN
    Of or pertaining to the Dravida. Dravidian languages, a group of languages of Southern India, which seem to have been the idioms of the natives, before the invasion of tribes speaking Sanskrit. Of these languages, the Tamil is the most important.
  • GRAVIDITY
    The state of being gravidated; pregnancy.
  • EXTRAVENATE
    Let out of the veins. "Extravenate blood." Glanvill.
  • CONTRAVENE
    1. To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat. So plain a proposition . . . was not likely to be contravened. Southey. 2. To violate; to nullify; to
  • TRAVERSE
    Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches. Oak . . . being strong in all positions, may be better trusted in cross and traverse work. Sir H. Wotton. The ridges of the fallow field traverse.

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