Hypertext Webster Gateway: "rabid"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Rabid \Rab"id\, a.[L. rabidus, from rabere to rave. See {Rage},
n.]
1. Furious; raging; extremely violent.
The rabid flight Of winds that ruin ships.
--Chapman.
2. Extreme, unreasonable, or fanatical in opinion;
excessively zealous; as, a rabid socialist.
3. Affected with the distemper called rabies; mad; as, a
rabid god or fox.
4. (Med.) Of or pertaining to rabies, or hydrophobia; as,
rabid virus.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
rabid
adj : marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a
cause or idea; "rabid isolationist" [syn: {fanatic}, {fanatical},
{overzealous}]
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