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phrenetic, a. (n.)|frɪˈnɛtɪk|
Forms: α. 4 frenetyk, 4–6 -ike; 5 frena-, 6 frenetyke, -ik, 6–7 -ick, 7 frenitick, 9 frenetic. β. 6 phrenetike, 6–7 -ique, 7 -icke, 7–8 -ick, 9 -itic, 7– phrenetic.
[a. OF. frenetike (Dial. S. Greg. 12–13th c.), ad. L. phrenēticus, a. late Gr. ϕρενητικός (Epict.), for ϕρενῑτικός afflicted with ϕρενῖτις delirium, f. ϕρήν, ϕρεν- heart, mind. Formerly stressed ˈphrenetic, whence phrentic, frantic.]
†1. Of persons: Delirious; mentally deranged; insane; crazy: = frantic a. 1. Obs.
αc1374Chaucer Troylus v. 206 (Camps.) And in his þrowes frenetyk [v.r. frentyk] and madde He curssed Ioue, Appollo, and ek Cupide. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. x. 6 To flatereres or to folis þat frantyk [v.r. frenetike] ben of wittes. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 193/1 Saynt marcial heled one that was frenatyke. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. viii. 84 Donald and quha with him appeiret frenetik.
β1558Knox First Blast (Arb.) 11 The foolishe, madde and phrenetike shal gouerne the discrete. 1651Hobbes Leviath. iii. xxxiv. 215 Those that became Phrenetique, Lunatique, or Epileptique. 1751G. Lavington Enthus. Meth. & Papists iii. (1754) 139 They [Persons bit by the Tarantula] are Phrenetic and delirious. 1778Phil. Trans. LXVIII. 206 All that survived..were to the highest degree phrenetic and outrageous.
2. transf. Affected with excessive excitement or enthusiasm, esp. in religious matters; furious; frantic; fanatic. Cf. frantic a. 2.
αc1540tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden) I. 109 This..restrained the rude raginge of the frenetick Scotts. 1657M. Hawke Killing is M. 40 The foolish dictates of such frenetick Impostor. 1819J. H. Wiffen Aonian Hours (1820) 109 Frenetic zealots. 1882Pall Mall G. 27 Oct. 1 Some of the more frenetic of the franc-tireurs of Liberalism.
fig.1872Browning Fifine v, How the pennon from its dome, Frenetic to be free, makes one red stretch for home!
β1565J. Calfhill Answ. Treat. Crosse 23 It is to be feared greately, least their arise some phrenetike persons, which will bragge and boast..that they be Prophetes. 1660N. Ingelo Bentiv. & Ur. v. 138 He esteems Prophetick Visions only as Dreams of phrenetick men. 1858Times 4 Nov. 6/4 The chivalrous and phrenetic Montbar, whose name was a cry to hush infants. 1878J. P. Newman in N. Amer. Rev. CXXVII. 321 When inspired, their individuality was intact. They [sacred writers] were never..phrenetic.
3.
†a. Of a disease: Consisting of or attended by delirium or temporary madness: = frantic a. 3 a. Obs.
b. Of actions, etc.: Insane; erratic; passionate: = frantic a. 3 b.
αa1529Skelton Agst. ven. Tongues viii. 10 Ye are so full of vertibilite, And of frenetyke folabilite. 1641Milton Ch. Govt. ii. iii. 50 Sometimes he shuts up [the man] as in frenetick, or infectious diseases. 1816Keatinge Trav. (1817) I. 198 [Of Mohammedanism] Its frenetic might, enthusiasm, too, evaporating in the diffusion of conquest. 1895M. Corelli Sorrows Satan 378 They run up the gamut of baffled passion to the pitch of frenetic hysteria.
β1595Daniel Civ. Wars iv. v, Impotent, By means of his Phreneticque maladie. 1615H. Crooke Body of Man 139 Rending the membranes, cause all our motions to be head-strong and giddy, our sensations phrenetick and mad. 1754O. in Connoisseur No. 28. ⁋1 Tom Dare-Devil..was carried off last week by a phrenetic fever. 1815Mary A. Schimmelpenninck Demolit. Monast. Port Royal III. 268 He struck every one who approached him, with the most phrenitic violence. 1860T. Martin Horace, Odes i. xvi, Clashing again And again their wild cymbals, such fervour phrenetic.
¶4. Catachrestic for phrenic a. 1.
1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Phrenetick Nerves, are those which are called also Stomachick..These descend between the Membranes of the Mediastinum, and send forth Branches into them. 1706in Phillips.
B. as n. A madman: = frantic n.
α1693–4Molineux Let. 17 Feb. in Locke's Lett. (1708) 75 How comes it to pass that want of consciousness cannot be proved for a drunkard as well as for a frenitick? 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. i. iv, All men's minds may go mad, and ‘believe him’, as the frenetic will do, ‘because it is impossible’.
β [1607Marston What you will ii. i, A company of odd phrenetici Did eate my youth.] 1612Selden Illustr. Drayton's Poly-olb. xvii, [They] made this poore King..euen as a Phrenetique, comit what posterity receiues now amongst the worst actions..of Princes. 1695Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth ii. (1723) 99 A common Fold of Phreneticks and Bedlams. 1881W. R. Smith Old Test. in Jew. Ch. x. 281 The visions of poor phrenetics.
Hence phreˈneticness, madness (Bailey vol. II, 1727). |