I see clearly that, if God does not give us faithful preachers and ministers, the devil will tear our church to pieces by the fanatics (Rottengeister), and will not cease until he has finished.
One who offers in sacrifice; specifically, one of a sect of Russian fanatics who practice self-mutilatio and sacrifice.
Formerly, fanatics sometimes threw themselves under the wheels to be crushed as a sacrifice to the god.
The child might be a Cupid or an Infant Jesus, as you pleased, but the sculptor had adorned the head with a kind of aureole; and so the fanatics declared that it was a mocking of God.
As an Italian, I put myself at the head of the band who proceeded to call on the pilgrims, who, in my opinion, must either be fanatics or rogues.
Luther had no desire to encounter the fanatics whose course had been productive of so great evil.
In both Germany and the Netherlands a class of fanatics had risen, advocating absurd and seditious doctrines, outraging order and decency, and proceeding to violence and insurrection.
Besides, there were still plenty of ignorant fanatics amongst the chosen "Ansar," or servants of God, to fire the naturally truculent mass of armed men.
It was whilst descending the interior stairway to meet the dervishes that Gordon was hacked and slain by the fierce fanatics and his body cast into the courtyard.
It is upon Stoicism that religious fanaticsbuilt their gloomy philosophy.
Nor can I dwell on the second part of the Revolution, when the government was in the hands of those fiends and fanaticswho turned France into one vast slaughter-house of butchery and blood.
Some of these fanatics pretend, for example, that physiologists should practise vivisection upon themselves.
Only fanatics would dare to say this weighs for nought in the balance.
If the anti-vivisectionists were true moralists and not fanatics they would say: "To provoke suffering to produce disease, to inflict tortures, is an execrable moral lesson.
On the other hand it was natural for the fanatics of that time to adopt Oates.
His pagoda on wheels is drawn through the city, and such enthusiasm was aroused in the bosoms of the noisy multitudes that fanatics used to throw themselves beneath the wheels with cries of joy.
The atrocious and blasphemous sentiment in the text was actually used by the fanatics who murdered Sharpe, the archbishop of St Andrews.
As these fanatics increased, many associations were formed, whose members, professing the same rule of religious life, were distinguished by the appropriate name of Cœnobites.
He marched through the land with a troop of fanatics who scourged their naked bodies with knotted cords, and incited the masses to adopt the same form of penance, believing that it would bring about the salvation of the world.
The maddest fanatics were at once elected inquisitors, to the great anger of the pope and his nuncio.
The fanatics had won the day; all their wishes were fulfilled.
These fanaticsintended to raise an insuperable barrier between the followers of the Talmud and those of the Bible.
No love of country fires their breasts-- The fell fanatics fain would free A grovelling race, And in their place Would fetter us with fiendish glee!
He gathers his party as fanatics do a church, and admits all his admirers how weak and slight soever; for he believes it is argument of wisdom enough in them to admire, or, as he has it, to understand him.
St. Paul was thought by Festus to be mad with too much learning, but the fanatics of our times are mad with too little.
He is very tender and scrupulous of his humour, as fanatics are of their consciences, and both for the most part in trifles.
He has one motive more, and that is the concurrent ignorant judgment of the present age, in which his sottish fopperies pass with applause, like Oliver Cromwell's oratory among fanatics of his own canting inclination.
And while the fanatics below prostrated themselves he prayed long and loudly.
It troubled him much that Amzi lent such a willing ear to Mohammed, and to the few fanatics among the Hanifs who had now professed their belief in this self-proclaimed prophet of Allah.
First they accused the whole Church of the Brethren of sins which had only been committed by a few fanatics at Marienborn and Herrnhaag; and, secondly, that fanaticism had practically ceased before the Act of Parliament was passed.
For some years these mad fanatics regarded themselves as the chosen instruments of the Divine displeasure, and only awaited a signal from heaven to commence a general massacre of their fellow men.
He had obtained these legal privileges just in time, and could now deal with the poor fanatics at Herrnhaag.
He directed his main attack against Zinzendorf and the old fanatics at Herrnhaag; and thus he made the English Brethren suffer for the past sins of their German cousins.
From first to last he wrote almost entirely of the fanatics at Herrnhaag, and fathered their sins upon the innocent Brethren in England.
Resolved, If Northern fanaticswill persist in meddling with our private institutions, we deem it expedient that Southern members should reply to them by the use of gutta-percha.
All but fanatics for Slavery admitted his claims to personal affection and public respect.
Hitherto it has been a subject for the hymns and elegies of fanatics and enthusiasts; but now it will draw the attention of the politician.
His would-be murderers were for the most part religious fanatics--as dangerous in that day as the fanatics of revolution in ours; and to this class belonged Ravaillac, at whose hands Henri was destined to perish.
Here were shut up the Jansenists and the fanatics known as the Convulsionnaires.
Some fanatics fell upon them and put them to death; and the incident, commented upon from the most different points of view, was in the end represented as an onslaught by reactionists on the sworn friends of liberty.
They are believed in by political fanatics in England and by dupes abroad, but the answer which many of the Boers upon the spot make to them is to enlist and fight under the British flag.
And yet to this day it is one of the articles of faith of a few crack-brained fanatics in this country, and of many ill-informed and prejudiced editors upon the Continent, that the British Government was responsible for the raid.
The game was not yet safe; and Richelieu did not allow himself to be led astray by the anger of fanatics who dubbed him State Cardinal.
Peter Parriere, a poor boatman of the Loire, whom an unhappy passion for a girl in the household of Marguerite de Valois and the preachings of fanatics had urged on to this hateful design.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fanatics" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
