Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FA-NAT'IC, n.

A person affected by excessive enthusiasm, particularly on religious subjects; one who indulges wild and extravagant notions of religion, and sometimes exhibits strange motions and postures, and vehement vociferation in religious worship. Fanatics sometimes affect to be inspired or to have intercourse with superior beings. Fanatics are governed rather by imagination than by judgment. Stowe.

FA-NAT'IC-AL-LY, adv.

With wild enthusiasm.

FA-NAT'IC-AL-NESS, n.

Fanaticism.

FA-NAT'I-CISM, n.

Excessive enthusiasm; wild and extravagant notions of religion; religious frenzy. Rogers.

FA-NAT'I-CIZE, v.t.

To make fanatic.

FA-NAT'I-CIZ-ED, pp.

Rendered fanatic.

FA-NAT'I-CIZ-ING, ppr.

Rendering fanatic.

FAN'CI-ED, pp. [See Fancy.]

Imagined; conceived; liked. Stephens.

FAN'CI-ER, n.

One who fancies.

FAN'CI-FUL, a. [See Fancy.]

1. Guided by the imagination, rather than by reason and experience; subject to the influence of fancy; whimsical; applied to persons. A fanciful man forms visionary projects.
2. Dictated by the imagination; full of wild images; chimerical; whimsical; ideal; visionary; applied to things; as, a fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory.

FAN'CI-FUL-LY, adv.

1. In a fanciful manner; wildly; whimsically.
2. According to fancy.

FAN'CI-FUL-NESS, n.

1. The quality of being fanciful, or influenced by the imagination, rather than by reason and experience; the habit of following fancy; applied to persons.
2. The quality of being dictated by imagination; applied to things.

FAN'CY, n. [contracted from fantasy. L. phantasia, Gr. φαντασια, from φανταζω, to cause to appear, to seem, to imagine, from φαινω, to show, to appear, to shine. The primary sense seems to be to open, or to shoot forth. Ar. بَانَ baina, to open, to appear; or فَعَنَ faana, to open or expand. Class Bn, No. 3, 28.]

1. The faculty by which the mind forms images or representations of things at pleasure. It is often used as synonymous with imagination; but imagination is rather the power of combining and modifying our conceptions. Stewart.
2. An opinion or notion. I have always had a fancy, that learning might be made a play and recreation to children. Locke.
3. Taste; conception. The little chapel called the Salutation is very neat, and built with a pretty fancy. Addison.
4. Image; conception; thought. How now, my lord, why do you keep alone; / Of sorriest fancies your companions making? Shak.
5. Inclination; liking. Take that which suits your fancy. How does this strike your fancy? His fancy lay to traveling. L'Estrange.
6. Love. Tell me where is fancy bred. Shak.
7. Caprice; humor; whim; as, an odd or strange fancy. True worth shall gain me, that it may be said, / Desert, not fancy, once a woman led. Dryden.
8. False notion. Bacon.
9. Something that pleases or entertains without real use or value. London-pride is a pretty fancy for borders. Mortimer.

FAN'CY, v.i.

To imagine; to figure to one's self; to believe or suppose without proof. All may not be our enemies whom we fancy to be so. If our search has reached no farther than simile and metaphor, we rather fancy than know. Locke.

FAN'CY, v.t.

1. To form a conception of; to portray in the mind; to imagine. He whom I fancy, but can ne'er express. Dryden.
2. To like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners. We fancy a person for beauty and accomplishment. We sometimes fancy a lady at first sight, whom, on acquaintance, we cannot esteem.

FAN'CY-FRAM-ED, a.

Created by the fancy. Crashaw.

FAN'CY-FREE, a.

Free from the power of love. Shak.

FAN'CY-ING, ppr.

Imagining; conceiving; liking.

FAN'CY-MONG-ER, n.

One who deals in tricks of imagination. Shak.

FAN'CY-SICK, a.

One whose imagination is unsound, or whose distemper is in his own mind. L'Estrange.

FAND, v. [old pret. of Find. Obs.]

Spenser.

FAN-DAN'GO, n. [Spanish.]

A lively dance. Sp. Dict.

FANE, n. [L. fanum.]

A temple; a place consecrated to religion; a church; used in poetry. From men their cities, and from gods their fanes. Pope.

FAN'FARE, n. [Fr.]

A coming into the lists with sound of trumpets; a flourish of trumpets.

FAN'FA-RON, n. [Fr. fanfaron; Sp. fanfarron; Port. fanfarram.]

A bully; a hector; a swaggerer; a empty boaster; a vain pretender. Dryden.