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What is a dervish?

What is a dervish? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A member of the Dervish fraternity of Sufism, known for spinning.
  2. (historical) One of the fanatical followers of the Mahdi, in the Sudan, in the 1880s.
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He was an advanced kind of religious fanatic, nearly in the foaming stages, something like a whirling dervish.
Mystic orders and dervishes played an important role in their lives and dervish lodges provided food and shelter along the trade routes.
And this time the thing he wanted was to get the dervish to rub some of the salve on his other eye.
So he done it, and they separated and the dervish started off again with his forty.
The overwhelming musical score and the too consistent whirling dervish camera only work to expose the film's desperate bid to keep its core vapidity under wraps.
Dr Dean has appeared on the nation's television sets with all the moderation of a howling dervish.

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