Latin
Words which terminate in
osus
generally imply vicious Characters, and the having of any Quality to an Excess
.
An Enthusiast in Religion is like an obstinate Clown, a Superstitious Man like an insipid Courtier. Enthusiasm has something in it of Madness, Superstition of Folly. Most of the Sects that fall short of the Church of
England
have in them strong Tinctures of Enthusiasm, as the
Roman