Fanatics
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
A religious enthusiast; a bigot; a person entertaining wild and extravagant notions, or affected by zeal or enthusiam, especially ^ upon religious subjects. The word was formerly defined In English law as a persoh pretending to be inspired, and was said to be a term applied to "Quakers, Anabaptists, and all other sectaries, and factious dissenters from the church of England." Jac. L>.
Diet. See Stat. 13 Car. II. c. 6.