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Webster 1913 Edition

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[Gr.

[GREEK]

, fr. Heb.

bnē hargem

sons of thunder. – an appellation given by Christ to two of his disciples (James and John). See

Mark

iii. 17.]

Any declamatory and vociferous preacher or orator.

Boanerges ‎(plural Boanergeses)

A vociferous preacher or orator.
- 1835, Chandler Robbins Gilman, Legends of a log cabin (page 121)
  The groom is a Boanerges, rants twice as loud and twice as long as my Phoenix, and is, of course, in the estimate of the fanatics, twice as clever a fellow.