Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Enthusiast

Enthusiast , noun

[Greek {not transcribed}: compare French enthousiaste.]

One moved or actuated by enthusiasm; as: (a) One who imagines himself divinely inspired, or possessed of some special revelation; a religious madman; a fanatic. (b) One whose mind is wholly possessed and heated by what engages it; one who is influenced by a peculiar; fervor of mind; an ardent and imaginative person.
Enthusiasts soon understand each other. — W. Irving