‖ Zamzummim
Also 6 Zamzumym, Samsumim, 7 Zanzummin(e, -im.
[Heb. pl. zamzummîm.]
A name of ‘a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims’ (Deut. ii. 21); used allusively or fig.
| 1530 Tindale Deut. ii. 20 That also was taken for a londe of geauntes and geauntes dwelt therin in olde tyme, and the Ammonites called them Zamzumyms. 1530 ― Answ. Sir T. More's Dial. Pref., Wks. (1573) 249/1 Haue they not compelled the Emperours of the earth..to be their tormentours, and the Samsumims them selues do but imagine mischief and inspire them. 1628 Burton Anat. Mel. ii. iii. ii. (ed. 3) 290 Aiax, Caligula, and the rest of those great Zanzummins, or giganticall Anakims. 1642 Drummond of Hawthornden Skiamachia Wks. (1711) 201 Such numbers of arm'd enemies, so many Nimrods, Zanzummims, adversaries to our opinions. 1660 England's Mon. Asserted 9 Those two great Zanzummines of Church and State, the Arch-bishop of Canterbury, and the Earl of Strafford. |