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 enthusiast, n. [http://oed.com/view/Entry/62880] 3.a. One who is full of "enthusiasm" (see enthusiasm n. 3) for a cause or principle, or who enters with enthusiasm into a pursuit.  Llangollen (22/07/2006) enthusiasm, n. [http://oed.com/view/Entry/62879] 3.a. Rapturous intensity of feeling in favour of a person, principle, cause, etc.; passionate eagerness in any pursuit, proceeding from an intense conviction of the worthiness of the object.
Thomas Notini
12/12/2011 05:15:31 pm
Greek word derived from the verb entheázo, or enthousiázo, meaning "make (somebody) full of God". Comments are closed.
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En annan sort. Dénis Lindbohm, Bevingaren, 1980: 90 
Even a parasite like me should be permitted to feed at the banquet of knowledge
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Note All parasitoids are parasites, but not all parasites are parasitoids Parasitoid "A parasite that always ultimately destroys its host" (Oxford English Dictionary) I live off you
And you live off me And the whole world Lives off everybody See we gotta be exploited By somebody, by somebody, by somebody X-Ray Spex <I live off you> Germ Free Adolescents 1978 From symbiosis
to parasitism is a short step. The word is now a virus. 
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