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bedlamite, n. and a.|ˈbɛdləmaɪt|
[f. as prec. + -ite.]
A. n. An inmate of Bedlam or of a lunatic asylum; a madman or lunatic.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. iv. i. v, Such raging bedlamites, as are tied in chains. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 489 More fit..to be read by Bedlamites than pretenders to vertue and modesty. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) III. lxxxi. 168 Lord B― raved like a bedlamite. 1822Byron Juan vi. xxxiv, Like..bedlamites broke loose.
B. attrib. or adj. Lunatic, mad.
1815Scott Guy M. liii, ‘The devil take the bedlamite old woman!’ a1852Moore Three Doctors v, Dr. Slop, upon subjects divine, Such bedlamite slaver lets drop. |