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monomaniacal, a.|ˌmɒnəʊməˈnaɪəkəl|
[f. monomania, after maniacal.]
Pertaining to, characterized by, or afflicted with monomania.
1833Blackw. Mag. XXXIV. 452 He is transformed at the beck of our Monomaniacal Necromancer into a fish. 1845R. W. Hamilton Pop. Educ. x. (ed. 2) 327 These are the fanatics to whom this subject [sc. education] is a mono⁓maniacal idea. 1857Dickens Lett. 13 July, He retired from the stage early in life (having a monomaniacal delusion that he was old). 1897S. S. Sprigge Life T. Wakley xxv. 230 Wakley was not monomaniacal on medical reform. 1971Eng. Studies LII. 249 He is, in short, a soulless creature set apart from the rest of humanity by his monomaniacal devotion to pure avarice.
Hence monomaˈniacally adv.
1856Dickens Dorrit (1857) i. xxi. 186 Young Sparkler hovering about the rooms, monomaniacally seeking any sufficiently ineligible young lady. 1972New York 3 Apr. 65 Her voice adheres monomaniacally to the same pitch. |