Part 35

||Zau*schne"ri*a (?), n. [NL., named for M. Zauschner, a Bohemian botanist.] (Bot.) A genus of flowering plants. Zauschneria Californica is a suffrutescent perennial, with showy red flowers much resembling those of the garden fuchsia.

Zax (zks), n. A tool for trimming and puncturing roofing slates. [Written also sax.]

||Za"yat (?; 277), n. A public shed, or portico, for travelers, worshipers, etc. [Burmah]

||Ze"a (z"), n. [L., a kind of grain, fr. Gr. ze`a, zeia`; cf. Skr. yava barley.] (Bot.) A genus of large grasses of which the Indian corn (Zea Mays) is the only species known. Its origin is not yet ascertained. See Maize.

Zeal (zl), n. [F. zèle; cf. Pg. & It. zelo, Sp. zelo, celo; from L. zelus, Gr. &?;, probably akin to &?; to boil. Cf. Yeast, Jealous.]

1. Passionate ardor in the pursuit of anything; eagerness in favor of a person or cause; ardent and active interest; engagedness; enthusiasm; fervor. "Ambition varnished o'er with zeal." Milton. "Zeal, the blind conductor of the will." Dryden. "Zeal's never-dying fire." Keble.

I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

Rom. x. 2.

A zeal for liberty is sometimes an eagerness to subvert with little care what shall be established.

Johnson.

2. A zealot. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Zeal, v. i. To be zealous. [Obs. & R.] Bacon.

Zeal"ant (?), n. One who is zealous; a zealot; an enthusiast. [Obs.]

To certain zealants, all speech of pacification is odious.

Bacon.

Zealed (?), a. Full of zeal; characterized by zeal. [Obs.] "Zealed religion." Beau. & Fl.

Zeal"ful (?), a. Full of zeal. [R.] Sylvester.

Zeal"less (?), a. Wanting zeal. Hammond.

Zeal"ot (?), n. [F. zélote, L. zelotes, Gr. &?;. See Zeal.] One who is zealous; one who engages warmly in any cause, and pursues his object with earnestness and ardor; especially, one who is overzealous, or carried away by his zeal; one absorbed in devotion to anything; an enthusiast; a fanatical partisan.

Zealots for the one [tradition] were in hostile array against zealots for the other.

Sir J. Stephen.

In Ayrshire, Clydesdale, Nithisdale, Annandale, every parish was visited by these turbulent zealots.

Macaulay.

Zea*lot"ic*al (?), a. Like, or suitable to, a zealot; ardently zealous. [R.] Strype.

Zeal"ot*ism (?), n. The character or conduct of a zealot; zealotry.

Zeal"ot*ist, n. A zealot. [Obs.] Howell.

Zeal"ot*ry (?), n. The character and behavior of a zealot; excess of zeal; fanatical devotion to a cause.

Enthusiasm, visionariness, seems the tendency of the German; zeal, zealotry, of the English; fanaticism, of the French.