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A professed hearer, a class of scholars under Pythagoras, who listened to his teachings, without inquiring into their inner truths or basis.

1. The performance of stunts while in flying in an aircraft.
2. Spectacular flying feats and maneuvers; such as, rolls and dives with an airplane.

1. A plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth; also known as: water plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant.
2. A species of plant that has adapted to living in or on aquatic environments.

1. Irregular, uncertain or without organization in movement or behavior.
2. Not predictable, regular, or consistent; especially, in being likely to depart from expected standards at any time.
3. Often changing direction and not following any definite course.
4. Having no fixed or regular course; wandering.
5. Lacking consistency, regularity, or uniformity; such as, an erratic heart beat.
6. Variable or unpredictable; such as, the course of an illness or the site of pain.
7. A description of a rock or boulder that was carried from its source by ice and deposited when the ice melted.

1. A person with an extreme and uncritical enthusiasm or zeal, as in religion or politics.
2. Someone who is marked or motivated by an extreme, unreasoning enthusiasm, as for a cause.
3. A fanatic, a zealot, a militant, a devotee; all refer to people who show more than ordinary support for, adherence to, or interest in a cause, a point of view, or an activity.
4. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea.
5. Etymology: From about 1525, "insane person", from Latin fanaticus, "mad, enthusiastic, inspired by a god," originally, "pertaining to a temple," from fanum "temple," related to festus "festive". The current sense of "extremely zealous", especially in religion, is first attested in 1647. The noun is from 1650, originally in a religious sense, of nonconformists.

Fanatic and zealot both suggest excessive or overweening devotion to a cause or belief.

Fanatic further implies unbalanced or obsessive behavior or a wild-eyed fanatic. A zealot, only slightly less unfavorable by implication than the term fanatic, implies a single-minded partisanship; such as, "a tireless zealot for tax reform".

Militant stresses vigorous, aggressive support for or opposition to a plan or ideal and suggests a combative stance.

Devotee is a milder term than any of the previous terms, suggesting enthusiasm but not to the exclusion of other interests or possible points of view; for example, a jazz devotee.

Another perspective about the term fanatic

According to the simplest etymology, "fanatic" derives from the Latin fanum, "temple"; but the meaning "zealous" or "zealot" seems to derive from the peculiar behavior of priests who served the Roman war goddess Bellona at a fanum built by the military dictator Sulla in the first century B.C.

Every year the priests staged a festival during which they tore off their robes and hacked at themselves with axes, splattering blood everywhere. This behavior could only be a sign of divine inspiration, and so fanaticus came to mean something like "crazed by the gods".

When the word "fanatic" first appeared in English in the sixteenth century, it meant "crazed person", and then more specifically "possessed with divine fury".

"Religious maniac" is still the principal meaning of the term, but in the shortened form "fan", it also simply means, "devotee" or "adherent".

Growing or living in streams.

A reference to glossematics.

Having or characterized by a well-developed sense of smell; a keen sense of smell.

1. A reference to the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
2. Posing a problem; difficult to solve; such as, a repair that proved more problematic than first expected.
3. Open to doubt; debatable.
4. Not settled; unresolved or dubious: "He has a problematic future."

1. Partially aquatic; living or growing partly on land and partly in water: "A marginal subaquatic flora."
2. Growing or remaining under water.
3. Being under water, or beneath the surface of water; adapted for use under water; such as, a submarine or a subaqueous helmet.
4. Formed in or under water; such as, "subaqueous deposits".
5. The practice of going underwater with or without breathing apparatus.

When done for sport, this is sometimes called subaquatics. There are different kinds of underwater diving.

• Snorkeling and free diving: swimming underwater without a breathing apparatus. An apparatus used by swimmers and skin divers, consisting of a long tube held in the mouth.
• Scuba diving and surface supplied diving: swimming or walking underwater with a breathing apparatus.