F A N 
FA'MOUS, adj. [ fameux , Fr .famofts, Lat.] Renowned ; 
celebrated ; much talked of and prailed.—There role up 
before Moles two hundred and fifty princes of the aflembly, 
famous in the congregation, men of renown. Numb. xvi. 2. 
Henry the Fifth, too famous to live long ; 
England ne’er loft a king of fo much worth. Shakefpeare. 
It has fometimes a’middle fignification, and imports fame 
whether for good or ill : 
Menecrates and Menas, famous pirates. 
Make the fea ferve them. Shakefpeare. 
FA'MOUSLY, adv. With great renown; with great 
celebration : 
Then this land was famomy enriched 
With politic grave counlel; then the king 
Had virtuous uncles to protedt his grace. Shakefpeare. 
FA'MOUSNESS,/. Celebrity; great fame. 
FAM'TAM-IIO'TUN, a town of Afia, in the king¬ 
dom of Corea : 625 miles eaft-north.eaft of Peking. 
FAN, f. [vannus, Lat.] An inftrument ufed by ladies 
to move the air and cool themfelves : 
The modeft fan was lifted up no more, 
And virgins fmil’d at what they blulh’d before. Pope. 
Any thing fpread out like a woman’s fan into a triangle 
with a broad bale.—As a peacock and crane were in com¬ 
pany, the peacock fpread his tail, and challenged the other 
to fliew him (itch up'anol feathers. DEf range .—The inftru¬ 
ment by which the chaff is blown away when corn is win¬ 
nowed. [Van, French.]—Affes (hall eat clean provender, 
winnowed with the Ihovel and with the fan. If. xxx. 24. 
In the wind and tempeft of fortune’s frown, 
Diftinftion, with a broad and powerful fan, 
Puffing at all, winnows the light away. Shakefpeare. 
Any thing by which the air is moved ; wings: 
The pris’ner, with a fpring from prifon broke: 
Then ftretch’d his feather’d fans with all his might, 
And to the neighb’ring maple wing’d his flight. Dryden. 
An inftrument to raife the fire.—Nature worketh in us all 
a love to our own counfels : the contradiiStion of others 
is a fan to inflame that love. Hooker. 
To FAN, v. a. To cool or recreate with a fan.—She 
was panned into (lumbers by her flaves. Spectator .—To 
ventilate ; to affedl by air put in motion.—The air ,fann'd 
with unnumber’d plumes. Milton. 
The fanning wind upon her bofom blows ; 
To meet the fanning wind the bofom rofe : 
The fanning wind and purling dreams continue her repofe. 
Dryden. 
To feparate, as by winnowing—I have collefted fome 
few, therein fanning the old, not omitting any. Bacon. 
Not fo the wicked ; but as chaff, which , farm’d, 
The wind drives, fo the wicked fhall not ftand. Milton. 
FAN, a town of China, of the third rank, in the pro¬ 
vince of Chan-tong : feventeen.miles north-eaft of Po. 
FAN-PALM,/, in botany. See ChaMjEROPS, Thri- 
nax, and Borassus flabelliformis, vol. iii. p. 209. 
F AN-YU'AN, a town of Afia, in the kingdom of Corea: 
twenty-three miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Koang-tcheou. 
FAN'AM,y. A coin at Meflupatan, in India, in value 
about fevenpence halfpenny fterling, fifteen of which 
make a pagod of gold. 
FANA'TIC, adv. [ fanaticus , Lat. fanatique , Fr.] En- 
thufiaftic ; ftruck with a fuperftitious frenzy : 
Ofiris, Ifis, Orus, and their train, 
With monfirous fhapes and forceries abus’d 
Fanatic Egypt, and her priefts, to feek 
Their wand’ring gods difguis’d in brutifh forms. Milton. 
FANA'TIC,/. Anenthufiaft; a man mad with wild 
•notions of religion.—The double armature of St. Peter 
is a more deftrubtive engine than the tumultuary weapon 
fnatcht up by a fanatic. Decay of Piety , 
FAN .211 
FANA'TICISM, f. Enthufiafm ; religious frenzy.—- 
A church whofe dottrines have flood unfhaken by the 
moft furious affaults of fanaticifm , has triumphed over all 
the arguments of its enemies. Regers. 
F AN'CIFUL, adj. Imaginative; rather guided by ima¬ 
gination than re a foil: of perfons_Some fanciful men have 
expected nothing but confufion and ruin from thofe very 
means, whereby both that and this is moft effectually pre¬ 
vented. Woodward .—Dictated by the imagination, not the 
reafon ; full of wild images of things.—What treafures 
did lie bury in his fumptuous buildings > and how foolifh 
and fanciful were they ? Hayward. 
FAN'CIFULLY, adv. According to the wildnefs of 
imagination. 
FAN'CIFUENESS, /. Addiction to the pleafures of 
imagination ; habit of following fancy rather than reafon. 
—Albertus Magnus was tranfported with too much fan - 
cifulnefs towards the influence of the heavenly motions, 
and aiftrological calculations. Hale. 
FAN'CY, f. [contracted from phantafy, phantafia, Lat. 
<pca/Tuc ncs, Gr.] It fliculd in ftriCt writing be phanfy. 
Imagination; the power by which the mind forms to it. 
felf images and reprefentations of things, perfons, or 
feenes of being.—Though no evidence affeCt the fancy 
fo ftrongly as that of fenfe, yet there is other evidence 
which gives as full fatisfaCtion, and as clear a conviction to 
our reafon. Atterbury. 
I.ove is by fancy led about, 
From hope to fear, from joy to doubt: 
Whom we now a goddefs call, 
Divinely grac’d in every feature, 
Straight’s a deform’d, a perjur’d creature ; 
Love and hate are fancy all. Granville. 
An opinion bred rather by the imagination than the rea¬ 
fon.—I have always had a fancy, that learning might be 
made a play and recreation to children. Locke. —Tafte ; 
idea ; conception of things.—The little chapel called the 
Salutation is very neat, and built with a pretty fancy, 
Addifon. —Image; conception; thought: 
How now, my lord, why do you keep alone ; 
Of ferried fancies your companions making, 
Ufing thofe thoughts which fhould indeed have died 
With them they think on ? Shakefpeare. 
Inclination; liking; fondnefs.— MW*, fancy lay extremely 
to travelling. V Ff range. — In Shakefpeare it fignifies love ; 
Tell me where is fancy bred, 
Or in the heart, or in the head ? 
How begot, how nourifhed ? 
It is engender’d in the eyes, 
With gazing fed, and fancy dies 
In the cradle where it lies. Merchant of Venice. 
Caprice; humour; whim: 
True worth fhall gain me, that it may be faid 
Defert, not fancy, once a woman led. Dryden. 
Falfe notion.—The altering of the feent, colour, or tafte, 
of fruit, by infilling, mixing, or cutting into the bark or 
root of the tree, herb, or flower, any coloured, aromaticai, 
ormedicinal, fubftance, are but fancies. Bacon .—Something 
that pleafes or entertains without real ufe or value.— ; 
London-pride is a pretty fancy for borders. Mortimer’. 
“ Fancy makes lovely Nancy.”—The power of ima¬ 
gination is fo great, and we fee fo many unaccountable 
inftances of it, in other things, as well as in attachments 
to the fair fex, that it begat the faying, “ Fancy will 
kill with love, or cure with hate." 
To FAN'CY, v. n. To imagine ; to believe without 
being able to prove.—If our fearch has reached no farther 
than finiile and metaphor, we rather fancy than know, and 
are not yet penetrated into the infide and reality of the 
thing ; but content ourfelves with what our imaginations 
furnilb us with. Locke. * 
To FAN'CY, v. a. To pourtray in the mind ; to image 
to himfelf: to imagine ; 
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