zelanthttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zelant_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezelant, n.
Revised 2018

† zelantnoun

Obsolete.
  1. 1624–26
    A zealot.
    1. 1624
      A poore drop of Christs his blood most pure, This zealant [Latin sedulus] Bottles-vp.
      J. Vicars, translation of G. Goodwin, Babels Balm x. 106
    2. 1625
      To certaine Zelants all Speech of Pacification is odious.
      F. Bacon, Essayes (new edition) 13
    3. a1626
      Eusebius beareth the Character of a Moderate Diuine. Gamaliel of a Protestant Zelant. Zebedaeus of a Romish Catholike Zelant.
      F. Bacon, Advt. Holy Warre in Certaine Miscellaneous Works (1629) 93

zelant, n. was revised in June 2018.

zelant, n. was last modified in September 2024.