maenadicadj.
/miːˈnadɪk/, /mʌɪˈnadɪk/, U.S. /miˈnædɪk/ Characteristic of or resembling a Maenad; frenzied.
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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
1830 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Jan. 1 Phallophori, and Mænadic women.
1830 Fraser's Mag. 1 587 There is a clapping of hands, and shouts of Mænadic glorification.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. x. 99/2 The rites..supposed to be of the Menadic sort.
1905 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Dec. 1 The maenadic proceedings of three or four hundred young gentlemen of Oxford and Cambridge universities..as a sequel to the Rugby match.
1924 C. Gray Surv. Contemp. Mus. 153 They may run a considerable risk of being torn limb from limb..by infuriated and maenadic worshippers.
1986 Financial Times 28 July i. 13 An insistent throb propels the music, as if it were a new draft for the Maenadic rites of The Bassarids.
2008 A. Davies Mine All Mine 251 She is wild, galvanized, maenadic with feeling.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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