Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 12:25:02 EDT From: sssssss-tink Subject: FILL: What's A Zealot [somewhere in the distance, the canons roar and crack, but here at home, there's billets (the Charge! of the Credit Brigade?), pilots (making heaps and heaps) and even old zealots (with zuzy zells zeashells by the zeashore? or just heavy z's on a warm afternoon in a hammock? ambiguity, thy tongue is split...go right to the OED, and check the word...there's the answer, quite absurd...] Zealot: 1. A member of a Jewish sect which aimed at a Jewish theocracy over the earth and fiercely resisted the Romans till the fall of Jerusalem in a.d. 70. 2. One who is zealous or full of zeal; one who pursues his object with passionate ardour; usually in disparaging sense, one who is carried away by excess of zeal; an immoderate partisan, a fanatical enthusiast. Const. for, +of, +to. tink