frenzyn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈfrɛnzi/, U.S.

/ˈfrɛnzi/

Forms: α. Middle English–1500s frenesie, frenesye, Middle English frenesi, frensye, fransie, fransye, (Middle English frenise, Middle English frenysye, franesie, 1500s frenyse, franzie), Middle English–1600s frenesy, Middle English–1500s fransey, 1500s–1600s frensie, frenzie, (1600s frensey), Middle English–1800s frensy, (1500s frenesi, fransy, franzy, 1500s–1600s frenc(e)y), 1600s– frenzy. β. 1500s–1600s phrenesie, phrenesye, phrensie, phrenzie, 1500s–1800s phrensy, (1800s phrenesy), 1600s– phrenzy. See also phrenesis n.

Etymology: Middle English frenesie , < Old French frenesie (French frénésie ) = Provençal frenezia , Italian frenesia , < late Latin phrenēsis (whence directly Provençal frenezi , Spanish frenesí , Portuguese frenesi ), a pseudo-Greek formation (on the analogy of pairs of related words in -ησις , -ητικός ) after phrenēticus , corruption of Greek ϕρενιτικός : see frantic adj. and n.The spelling with ph- is now rare; some writers show a tendency to prefer it when the reference is to prophetic ecstasy or demoniacal possession.

A. n.

1. Mental derangement; delirium, or temporary insanity; in later use chiefly the uncontrollable rage or excitement of paroxysm of mania. Now somewhat rare in lit. sense.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > frenzy or raging

wood dreameOE

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wildnessc1540

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frenziness1594

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nympholepsy1776

nympholepsia1885

α.

c1340 R. Rolle Prose Treat. (1866) 17 A fantasie caused of trubblyng of þe brayne, as a mane þat es in a frensye.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vii. v. 225 Frensy is an hote postume in certayn skynnes and felles of the brayne, and therto folowyth wakynge and rauyng.

c1440 W. Hylton Scala Perfeccionis (1494) ii. xxii Thou shalt fall in to syckenes or in to fantasyes or in to frenesyes.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xv. 98 I may compair them til ane man in ane frenyse quhilk bytis his auen membris vitht his techt.

1674 J. Milton Paradise Lost (ed. 2) xi. 485 Dæmoniac Phrenzie, moaping Melancholie And Moon-struck madness.

1713 A. Pope Narr. Robert Norris 6 An Officer of the Custom-house, who was taken ill of a violent Frenzy last April.

1794 S. T. Coleridge Lines on Friend 17 Till frenzy..Darts her hot lightning-flash athwart the brain.

1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece V. 219 He must have been subject to temporary fits of frenzy.

β. 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 133^v Rinning thyme..is..good..for the phrenesye.1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. iii. 8 They thinke and do as it were in a phrensie they know not what.a1617 P. Baynes Comm. Ephes. (1658) 82 Through phrenzie out of our right minds.1793 T. Holcroft tr. J. C. Lavater Ess. Physiognomy (abridged ed.) i. 8 Should the light by being brought too close to his eyes produce phrensy, he may burn himself.1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. iv. 111 The women of Argos were struck with phrenzy.

a. figurative. Agitation or disorder of the mind likened to madness; a state of delirious fury, rage, enthusiasm, or the like; also, wild folly, distraction, craziness.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness

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a screw loose1810

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meshugas1898

white ant1908

crackedness1910

pottiness1933

loopiness1939

wackiness1941

screwballism1942

kink1959

α.

c1386 G. Chaucer Summoner's Tale 501 I hold him in a maner frenesye.]

?a1400 Morte Arth. 3827 He felle in a fransye for fersenesse of herte.

c1422 T. Hoccleve Jereslaus' Wife 715 The Shipman had also the franesie, þat with this Emperice hadde ment ffulfillid his foul lust of aduoutrie.

1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 605/2 Happy were Tindall, if he were as well recouered of his fransies.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. i. 12 The Poets eye, in a fine frenzy, rolling.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 266 That the Immortal Gods should be..pleased with such Wickedness, is the highest Frenzy to believe.

1791 T. Paine Rights of Man i. 5 When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a phrenzy of passion.

1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville II. 231 The sight inspired almost a frenzy of delight.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 234 Some hot-headed Roman Catholic, driven to frenzy by the lies of Oates.

1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xviii. 112 An act done in the mere frensy of despair.

β. 1795 W. Windham Speeches Parl. 5 Jan. (1812) I. 264 With all the phrenzy and fondness which men usually shew to their most extravagant opinions.1813 W. Scott Rokeby i. xii. 17 I could have laughed..To see, in phrenesy sublime, How the fierce zealots fought and bled.1846 in L. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson (ed. 5) 397 (note) His moderation in a time of phrenzy was surely a sufficient argument.a1854 H. Reed Lect. Eng. Hist. (1855) ix. 287 The king, probably to save his life from the phrensy of faction, banished him.

b. A crazy notion or wild idea; also, a craze or mania (for something).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > [noun] > temporary desire

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enthusiasm1895

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > slight madness > crankiness or eccentricity > idea

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1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 126 A new phrensie being come into his head of getting the Princesse.

1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 13 Whom the Frensy of Travelling never carry'd into Foreign Lands.

1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. III. lx. 291 Accustomed to indulge every chimera in politics, every frenzy in religion.

B. adj. [? attributive use of the noun.]

†1. Mad, insane, crazy. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with

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(to go) off one's dot1883

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up the (also a) pole1904

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détraqué1925

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mental1927

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over the edge1929

round the bend1929

lakes1934

ding-a-ling1935

wacky1935

screwball1936

dingbats1937

Asiatic1938

parlatic1941

troppo1941

up the creek1941

screwed-up1943

bonkers1945

psychological1952

out to lunch1955

starkers1956

off (one's) squiff1960

round the twist1960

yampy1963

out of (also off) one's bird1966

out of one's skull1967

whacked out1969

batshit1971

woo-woo1971

nutso1973

out of (one's) gourd1977

wacko1977

off one's meds1986

1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. ii. viii. sig. N.vij/1 Hee that byndeth a phrensie man, and waketh him that is sick of the lethargie, doth trouble them both, & yet hee loueth them both.

1616 S. Ward Serm. (1635) 337 All these sharpers have but a frensie mans sleepe.

1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Matt. v. 44) Saunders..being sent to prison by Stephen Gardner..(who bad, Carry away this phrensie-fool, etc.).

2. dialect. Angry; of a violent temper, passionate.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [adjective] > furiously angry

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aweddeOE

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up the wall1951

ravers1967

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > [adjective] > irascible (of person)

hotOE

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lightningy1906

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short-fused1979

1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. x. 206 I daresay ye warna franzy, for ye look as if ye'd ne'er been angered i' your life.

1876 Mrs. Francis S.-Warwickshire Words in W. W. Skeat Orig. Glossaries 126 Franzy, passionate.

1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) Franzy, irritable.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

frenzy-pointed adj.

ΚΠ

1835 T. N. Talfourd Ion ii. iii The dull groan and frenzy-pointed shriek Pass them unheard to heaven.

frenzy-rolling adj.

ΚΠ

1777 T. Warton Ode viii. 54 To bid her visions meet the frenzy-rolling eye.

C2.

frenzy-fever n. a fever attended with delirium, ? brain-fever.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > other fevers

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rheumatic fever1726

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hill-fever1804

Walcheren fever1810

Mediterranean fever1816

malignant1825

relapsing fever1828

rose cold1831

date fever1836

rose catarrh1845

Walcheren ague1847

mountain fever1849

mill fever1850

Malta fever1863

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Oroya fever1873

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East Coast fever1881

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Rhodesian sleeping sickness1911

sandfly fever1911

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brucellosis1930

Rift Valley fever1931

Zika1952

Lassa fever1970

Marburg1983

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 903 Had halfe his people on this Coast sicke of shaking, burning, frenzie-fevers.

1806 Antidote Miseries Human Life 111 [She] was seized with the scarlet fever, from which she was scarcely recovered when she was attacked by a still more formidable one, a frensy fever.

Derivatives

† ˈfrenziful adj. Obsolete ( < the noun), affected with frenzy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > frenzied or raging

aweddeOE

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ballistic1981

1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil i. iv. 46 All those pretences of phrenziful and fanciful people.

† ˈfrenzily adv. Obsolete ( < the adjective)

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adverb] > madly

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out of (by, from, of) wit or one's wit1470–85

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a1688 J. Bunyan Wks. (1692) I. 427/1 How frenzily he imagins!

† ˈfrenziness n. Obsolete ( < the adjective)

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > frenzy or raging

wood dreameOE

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nympholepsia1885

1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 310 Vehement anger is often accompanied with frensinesse.

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单词	frenzy
释义	frenzyn.adj. Brit. /ˈfrɛnzi/, U.S. /ˈfrɛnzi/ Forms: α. Middle English–1500s frenesie, frenesye, Middle English frenesi, frensye, fransie, fransye, (Middle English frenise, Middle English frenysye, franesie, 1500s frenyse, franzie), Middle English–1600s frenesy, Middle English–1500s fransey, 1500s–1600s frensie, frenzie, (1600s frensey), Middle English–1800s frensy, (1500s frenesi, fransy, franzy, 1500s–1600s frenc(e)y), 1600s– frenzy. β. 1500s–1600s phrenesie, phrenesye, phrensie, phrenzie, 1500s–1800s phrensy, (1800s phrenesy), 1600s– phrenzy. See also phrenesis n. Etymology: Middle English frenesie , < Old French frenesie (French frénésie ) = Provençal frenezia , Italian frenesia , < late Latin phrenēsis (whence directly Provençal frenezi , Spanish frenesí , Portuguese frenesi ), a pseudo-Greek formation (on the analogy of pairs of related words in -ησις , -ητικός ) after phrenēticus , corruption of Greek ϕρενιτικός : see frantic adj. and n.The spelling with ph- is now rare; some writers show a tendency to prefer it when the reference is to prophetic ecstasy or demoniacal possession. A. n. 1. Mental derangement; delirium, or temporary insanity; in later use chiefly the uncontrollable rage or excitement of paroxysm of mania. Now somewhat rare in lit. sense. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > frenzy or raging wood dreameOE frenzyc1340 furor1477 rammistnessc1485 wildnessc1540 willnessc1540 frenzicness1547 frenziness1594 phrenition1642 amok1665 nympholepsy1776 nympholepsia1885 α. c1340 R. Rolle Prose Treat. (1866) 17 A fantasie caused of trubblyng of þe brayne, as a mane þat es in a frensye. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vii. v. 225 Frensy is an hote postume in certayn skynnes and felles of the brayne, and therto folowyth wakynge and rauyng. c1440 W. Hylton Scala Perfeccionis (1494) ii. xxii Thou shalt fall in to syckenes or in to fantasyes or in to frenesyes. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xv. 98 I may compair them til ane man in ane frenyse quhilk bytis his auen membris vitht his techt. 1674 J. Milton Paradise Lost (ed. 2) xi. 485 Dæmoniac Phrenzie, moaping Melancholie And Moon-struck madness. 1713 A. Pope Narr. Robert Norris 6 An Officer of the Custom-house, who was taken ill of a violent Frenzy last April. 1794 S. T. Coleridge Lines on Friend 17 Till frenzy..Darts her hot lightning-flash athwart the brain. 1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece V. 219 He must have been subject to temporary fits of frenzy. β. 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 133^v Rinning thyme..is..good..for the phrenesye.1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. iii. 8 They thinke and do as it were in a phrensie they know not what.a1617 P. Baynes Comm. Ephes. (1658) 82 Through phrenzie out of our right minds.1793 T. Holcroft tr. J. C. Lavater Ess. Physiognomy (abridged ed.) i. 8 Should the light by being brought too close to his eyes produce phrensy, he may burn himself.1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. iv. 111 The women of Argos were struck with phrenzy. 2. a. figurative. Agitation or disorder of the mind likened to madness; a state of delirious fury, rage, enthusiasm, or the like; also, wild folly, distraction, craziness. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness woodnessc1000 woodshipc1000 madshipc1225 woodc1275 woodhead1303 ragec1330 amentiaa1398 madnessa1398 frenzy?a1400 madheada1400 maddingc1400 alienation?a1425 furiosity?a1475 derverye1480 forcenery1480 furiousnessc1500 unwitness1527 unwitting1527 demencya1529 straughtness1530 insaniea1538 brainsickness1541 lunacy1541 amenty1557 distraughtness1576 dementation?1583 straughtedness1583 insanity1590 crazedness1593 bedlam1598 dementia1598 insanation1599 non compos mentis1607 distraction1609 daffinga1614 disinsanitya1625 cerebrosity1647 vecordy1656 fanaticness1662 non-sanity1675 insaneness1730 craziness1755 hydrophobia1760 vecord1788 derangement1800 vesania1800 a screw loose1810 unsoundness1825 dementedness1833 craze1841 psychosis1847 crackiness1861 feyness1873 crack1891 meshugas1898 white ant1908 crackedness1910 pottiness1933 loopiness1939 wackiness1941 screwballism1942 kink1959 α. c1386 G. Chaucer Summoner's Tale 501 I hold him in a maner frenesye.] ?a1400 Morte Arth. 3827 He felle in a fransye for fersenesse of herte. c1422 T. Hoccleve Jereslaus' Wife 715 The Shipman had also the franesie, þat with this Emperice hadde ment ffulfillid his foul lust of aduoutrie. 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 605/2 Happy were Tindall, if he were as well recouered of his fransies. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. i. 12 The Poets eye, in a fine frenzy, rolling. View more context for this quotation 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 266 That the Immortal Gods should be..pleased with such Wickedness, is the highest Frenzy to believe. 1791 T. Paine Rights of Man i. 5 When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a phrenzy of passion. 1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville II. 231 The sight inspired almost a frenzy of delight. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 234 Some hot-headed Roman Catholic, driven to frenzy by the lies of Oates. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xviii. 112 An act done in the mere frensy of despair. β. 1795 W. Windham Speeches Parl. 5 Jan. (1812) I. 264 With all the phrenzy and fondness which men usually shew to their most extravagant opinions.1813 W. Scott Rokeby i. xii. 17 I could have laughed..To see, in phrenesy sublime, How the fierce zealots fought and bled.1846 in L. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson (ed. 5) 397 (note) His moderation in a time of phrenzy was surely a sufficient argument.a1854 H. Reed Lect. Eng. Hist. (1855) ix. 287 The king, probably to save his life from the phrensy of faction, banished him. b. A crazy notion or wild idea; also, a craze or mania (for something). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > [noun] > temporary desire frenzy1632 mania1689 furor1704 influenza1773 rage1780 furore1790 monomania1834 bug1887 craze1887 enthusiasm1895 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > slight madness > crankiness or eccentricity > idea worm?a1534 frenzy1632 twist1811 fad1834 fantod1839 crank1848 marotte1852 faddity1892 1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 126 A new phrensie being come into his head of getting the Princesse. 1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 13 Whom the Frensy of Travelling never carry'd into Foreign Lands. 1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. III. lx. 291 Accustomed to indulge every chimera in politics, every frenzy in religion. B. adj. [? attributive use of the noun.] †1. Mad, insane, crazy. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with woodc725 woodsekc890 giddyc1000 out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000 witlessc1000 brainsickOE amadc1225 lunaticc1290 madc1330 sickc1340 brain-wooda1375 out of one's minda1387 frenetica1398 fonda1400 formada1400 unwisea1400 brainc1400 unwholec1400 alienate?a1425 brainless1434 distract of one's wits1470 madfula1475 furious1475 distract1481 fro oneself1483 beside oneself1490 beside one's patience1490 dementa1500 red-wood?1507 extraught1509 misminded1509 peevish1523 bedlam-ripe1525 straughta1529 fanatic1533 bedlama1535 daft1540 unsounda1547 stark raving (also staring) mad1548 distraughted1572 insane1575 acrazeda1577 past oneself1576 frenzy1577 poll-mad1577 out of one's senses1580 maddeda1586 frenetical1588 distempered1593 distraught1597 crazed1599 diswitted1599 idle-headed1599 lymphatical1603 extract1608 madling1608 distracteda1616 informala1616 far gone1616 crazy1617 March mada1625 non compos mentis1628 brain-crazed1632 demented1632 crack-brained1634 arreptitiousa1641 dementate1640 dementated1650 brain-crackeda1652 insaniated1652 exsensed1654 bedlam-witteda1657 lymphatic1656 mad-like1679 dementative1685 non compos1699 beside one's gravity1716 hyte1720 lymphated1727 out of one's head1733 maddened1735 swivel-eyed1758 wrong1765 brainsickly1770 fatuous1773 derangedc1790 alienated1793 shake-brained1793 crack-headed1796 flighty1802 wowf1802 doitrified1808 phrenesiac1814 bedlamite1815 mad-braineda1822 fey1823 bedlamitish1824 skire1825 beside one's wits1827 as mad as a hatter1829 crazied1842 off one's head1842 bemadded1850 loco1852 off one's nut1858 off his chump1864 unsane1867 meshuga1868 non-sane1868 loony1872 bee-headed1879 off one's onion1881 off one's base1882 (to go) off one's dot1883 locoed1885 screwy1887 off one's rocker1890 balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891 meshuggener1892 nutty1892 buggy1893 bughouse1894 off one's pannikin1894 ratty1895 off one's trolley1896 batchy1898 twisted1900 batsc1901 batty1903 dippy1903 bugs1904 dingy1904 up the (also a) pole1904 nut1906 nuts1908 nutty as a fruitcake1911 bugged1920 potty1920 cuckoo1923 nutsy1923 puggled1923 blah1924 détraqué1925 doolally1925 off one's rocket1925 puggle1925 mental1927 phooey1927 crackers1928 squirrelly1928 over the edge1929 round the bend1929 lakes1934 ding-a-ling1935 wacky1935 screwball1936 dingbats1937 Asiatic1938 parlatic1941 troppo1941 up the creek1941 screwed-up1943 bonkers1945 psychological1952 out to lunch1955 starkers1956 off (one's) squiff1960 round the twist1960 yampy1963 out of (also off) one's bird1966 out of one's skull1967 whacked out1969 batshit1971 woo-woo1971 nutso1973 out of (one's) gourd1977 wacko1977 off one's meds1986 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. ii. viii. sig. N.vij/1 Hee that byndeth a phrensie man, and waketh him that is sick of the lethargie, doth trouble them both, & yet hee loueth them both. 1616 S. Ward Serm. (1635) 337 All these sharpers have but a frensie mans sleepe. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Matt. v. 44) Saunders..being sent to prison by Stephen Gardner..(who bad, Carry away this phrensie-fool, etc.). 2. dialect. Angry; of a violent temper, passionate. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [adjective] > furiously angry grim971 aweddeOE woodlyc1000 anburstc1275 woodc1275 aburstc1300 eagerc1325 brotheful1330 brothely1330 furiousc1374 wroth as (the) wind1377 throc1380 fella1382 wrothlya1400 grindelc1400 raginga1425 furibund1490 bremit1535 outraging1567 fulminant?1578 wood-like1578 horn-mad1579 snuff1582 woodful1582 maddeda1586 rageful1585 furibundal1593 gary1609 fierce1611 wild1653 infuriate1667 hopping mad1675 maddened1735 sulphureous1751 savage1789 infuriated1796 bouncing mad1834 frenzy1859 furyinga1861 ropeable1870 furied1878 fulminous1886 livid1888 fit to be tied1894 hopping1894 fighting mad1896 tamping mad1946 up the wall1951 ravers1967 the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > [adjective] > irascible (of person) hotOE wooda1250 hastivec1300 irous1303 hastya1350 angrya1387 melancholiousa1393 quicka1400 irefulc1400 melancholyc1450 turnec1480 iracundiousa1492 passionatea1500 fumish1523 irascible1530 wrothful1535 fierya1540 warm1547 choleric1556 hot at hand1558 waspish1566 incensive1570 bilious1571 splenative1593 hot-livered1599 short1599 spitfire1600 warm-tempered1605 temperless1614 sulphurous1616 angryable1662 huffy1680 hastish1749 peppery1778 quick-tempered1792 inflammable1800 hair-triggered1806 gingery1807 spunky1809 iracund1821 irascid1823 wrathy1828 frenzy1859 gunpowdery1868 gunpowderous1870 tempersome1875 exacerbescent1889 tempery1905 lightningy1906 temperish1925 short-fused1979 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. x. 206 I daresay ye warna franzy, for ye look as if ye'd ne'er been angered i' your life. 1876 Mrs. Francis S.-Warwickshire Words in W. W. Skeat Orig. Glossaries 126 Franzy, passionate. 1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) Franzy, irritable. Compounds C1. General attributive. frenzy-pointed adj. ΚΠ 1835 T. N. Talfourd Ion ii. iii The dull groan and frenzy-pointed shriek Pass them unheard to heaven. frenzy-rolling adj. ΚΠ 1777 T. Warton Ode viii. 54 To bid her visions meet the frenzy-rolling eye. C2. frenzy-fever n. a fever attended with delirium, ? brain-fever. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > other fevers fever hectica1398 emitrichie1398 hectic1398 etisie1527 emphysode fever1547 frenzy-fever1613 purple fever1623 prunella1656 marcid fever1666 remittent1693 feveret1712 rheumatic fever1726 milk fever1739 stationary fever1742 febricula1746 milky fever1747 camp-disease1753 camp-fever1753 sun fever1765 recurrent fever1768 rose fever1782 tooth-fever1788 sensitive fever1794 forest-fever1799 white leg1801 hill-fever1804 Walcheren fever1810 Mediterranean fever1816 malignant1825 relapsing fever1828 rose cold1831 date fever1836 rose catarrh1845 Walcheren ague1847 mountain fever1849 mill fever1850 Malta fever1863 bilge-fever1867 Oroya fever1873 hyperpyrexia1875 famine-fever1876 East Coast fever1881 spirillum fevera1883 kala azar1883 black water1884 febricule1887 urine fever1888 undulant fever1896 rabbit fever1898 rat bite fever1910 Rhodesian sleeping sickness1911 sandfly fever1911 tularaemia1921 sodoku1926 brucellosis1930 Rift Valley fever1931 Zika1952 Lassa fever1970 Marburg1983 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 903 Had halfe his people on this Coast sicke of shaking, burning, frenzie-fevers. 1806 Antidote Miseries Human Life 111 [She] was seized with the scarlet fever, from which she was scarcely recovered when she was attacked by a still more formidable one, a frensy fever. Derivatives † ˈfrenziful adj. Obsolete ( < the noun), affected with frenzy. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > frenzied or raging aweddeOE woodc1000 woodlyc1000 wildc1300 franticc1390 ramage1440 welling woodc1440 staringc1449 rammistc1455 rabious1460 horn-wood?a1500 rammisha1500 enragea1522 frenzic1547 wood-like1578 horn-mad1579 woodful1582 frenzicala1586 ragefula1586 rabid1594 ravening1599 ravenous1607 Pythic1640 exorbitant1668 frenziful1726 haggard-wild1786 frenzied1796 maenadic1830 berserk1867 up the wall1951 ballistic1981 1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil i. iv. 46 All those pretences of phrenziful and fanciful people. † ˈfrenzily adv. Obsolete ( < the adjective) ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adverb] > madly woodlyc1000 madlyc1225 out of (by, from, of) wit or one's wit1470–85 bedlamlya1569 bedlamlike1576 distractedly1608 madling1608 monthly1611 brainsicklya1616 maddinglya1625 frenzilya1688 crazily1814 insanely1828 dementedly1844 off1866 hippomaniacally1876 pathologically1925 manically1927 dottily1937 feyly1959 kookily1968 nutso1980 a1688 J. Bunyan Wks. (1692) I. 427/1 How frenzily he imagins! † ˈfrenziness n. Obsolete ( < the adjective) ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > frenzy or raging wood dreameOE frenzyc1340 furor1477 rammistnessc1485 wildnessc1540 willnessc1540 frenzicness1547 frenziness1594 phrenition1642 amok1665 nympholepsy1776 nympholepsia1885 1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 310 Vehement anger is often accompanied with frensinesse. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). frenzyv. Brit. /ˈfrɛnzi/, U.S. /ˈfrɛnzi/ Etymology: < frenzy n. transitive. To drive (a person) to frenzy, infuriate. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > infuriate [verb (transitive)] anangeredc1380 enfelon1477 ournc1540 fierce1565 enrage1589 effierce1590 eneager1594 rage1597 ferocitate1666 infuriate1667 madden1720 frenzy1810 furify1872 burn1935 send (someone) up the wall1951 1810 A. Boswell Edinburgh 15 A Poet..Phrenzied by change of Manners and Town Fashion, Rails at the change. 1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. I. vii. 439 The people, frenzied by centuries of oppression, practised the most revolting cruelties. 1872 Daily News 18 Mar. The bare thought..frenzies him to the verge of madness. Derivatives ˈfrenzying adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [adjective] > infuriating wooda1387 frenzying1796 infuriating1891 1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc ii. 270 Ever and anon Some mother raised o'er her expiring child A cry of frenzying anguish. 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 32 Rain then thy plagues..Ghastly disease, and frenzying fear. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.c1340v.1796
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