Fat´imite (3 syl.). The Third Fatimite, the Caliph Hakem B’amr-ellah, who professed to be incarnate deity, and the last prophet who had communication between God and man. He was the founder of the Druses (q.v.).
What say you does this wizard style himself—
Hakeem Biamrallah, the Third Fatimite?
Robt. Browning, The Return of the Druses, v.
Fatme. Beautiful sultana, who, looking down from her lattice into the courtyard wept to see a lamb slaughtered, yet turned from the window to ask in eager hope if the poison administered to her rival had produced the desired effect.—Heine.
Faulconbridge (Philip), called “the Bastard,” natural son of King Richard I. and Lady Robert Faulconbridge. An admirable admixture of greatness and levity, daring and recklessness. He was generous and open-hearted, but hated foreigners like a true-born islander.—Shakespeare, King John (1596).
Faulkland, the over-anxious lover of Julia [Melville], always fretting and tormenting himself about her whims, spirit, health, life. Every feature in the sky, every shift of the wind was a source of anxiety to him. If she was gay, he fretted that she should care so little for his absence; if she was low-spirited, he feared she was going to die; if she danced with another, he was jealous; if she didn´t, she was out of sorts.—Sheridan, The Rivals (1775).
Faultless Painter (The), Andrea del Sarto (1488-1630).—R. Browning, Andrea del Sarto.
Fauntleroy (Little Lord). The story of Cedric Errol, heir to his grandfather, Lord Fauntleroy, by Frances Hodgson Burnett, has been dramatized, Elsie Leslie, a child of rare promise, taking the part of Cedric, and Kathryn Kidder that of his mother. (See Errol).
Faun. Tennyson uses this sylvan deity of the classics as the symbol of a drunkard.