freneticadj.n.

Brit.

/frᵻˈnɛtɪk/, U.S.

/frəˈnɛdɪk/

Forms: α. Middle English frenetyk, Middle English–1500s frenetike; Middle English frena-, 1500s frenetyke, frenetik, 1500s–1600s frenetick, 1600s frenitick, 1800s frenetic. β. 1500s phrenetike, 1500s–1600s phrenetique, 1600s phreneticke, 1600s–1700s phrenetick, 1800s phrenitic, 1600s– phrenetic.

Etymology: < Old French frenetike ( Dial. S. Greg. 12–13th cent.), < Latin phrenēticus , < late Greek ϕρενητικός (Epict.), for ϕρενῑτικός afflicted with ϕρενῖτις delirium, < ϕρήν , ϕρεν- heart, mind. Formerly stressed ˈphrenetic , whence frantic adj. and n.

A. adj.

†1.

a. Of a person: delirious; mentally deranged; insane, crazy; = frantic adj. 1. Obsolete.

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

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round the bend1929

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up the creek1941

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out to lunch1955

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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

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off one's meds1986

α.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 27 Þe resonable spirit is Ilette of alle his werkes in body, as it is Isene a mased madde man and frenetik [L. in maniacis et in freneticis] & in oþir þat ofte leseþ vse of resoun.

a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) v. 206 And in his throwes frenetik [v.r. frentyk] and madde He corseth..Cupide.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 178 Frenetyke [v.rr. frentyk, ffrentyke], freneticus, maniatus.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 193/1 Saynt marcial heled one that was frenatyke.

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 84 Donald and quha with him appeiret frenetik.

β. 1558 J. Knox First Blast against Monstruous Regiment Women f. 9^v The foolishe, madde and phrenetike shal gouerne the discrete.1597 King James VI & I Daemonologie (1924) 47 [Witches] can make folkes to becom phreneticque or maniacque.1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xxxiv. 215 Those that became Phrenetique, Lunatique, or Epileptique.1751 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. III 179 They [sc. Persons bit by the Tarantula]..are Phrenetic and delirious.1778 Philos. Trans. 1777 (Royal Soc.) 68 206 All that survived..were to the highest degree phrenetic and outrageous.

b. Of a disease: characterized or attended by delirium or temporary madness; = frantic adj. 3a. Obsolete.

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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > delirious or raving

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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > delirious or raving > attended by delirium

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α.

1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 50 Sometimes he shuts up [the man] as in frenetick, or infectious diseases.

β. 1609 S. Daniel Civile Wares (rev. ed.) iv. v. 88 Impotent, By meanes of his Phreneticque maladie.1754 Connoisseur (1755) No. 28. 163 Tom Dare-Devil..was carried off last week by a phrenetic fever.

2. Of a quality, power, act, process, etc.: frenzied, manic; wild, passionate; rapid and energetic in an uncontrolled or unrestrained way. Cf. frantic adj. 3b.

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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > of actions or things

frenetica1529

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crazy1855

swivel-eyed1983

α.

a1529 J. Skelton Against Venemous Tongues viii. 10 Ye are so full of vertibilite, And of frenetyke folabilite.

1816 M. Keating Trav. (1817) I. 198 [Of Mohammedanism] Its frenetic might, enthusiasm, too, evaporating in the diffusion of conquest.

1895 ‘M. Corelli’ Sorrows Satan 378 They run up the gamut of baffled passion to the pitch of frenetic hysteria.

1958 Observer 23 Nov. 16/3 On one side was the frenetic..bumptiousness of the rock-'n'-rollers, on the other the calculated indifference of the cool cats.

1975 D. Davin Closing Times iv. 75 The demands she made on herself..grew greater, more frenetic and obsessive, every year.

1995 Wall St. Jrnl. 5 June a 12/1 ‘ER’ was the season's break-out hit, and admittedly, it's riveting..the same way a car crash is—lots of blood and frenetic action.

β. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 139 Rending the membranes, cause all our motions to be head-strong and giddy, our sensations phrenetick and mad.1815 M. A. Schimmelpenninck Demolit. Monastery Port Royal III. 268 He struck every one who approached him, with the most phrenitic violence.1860 T. Martin tr. Horace Odes i. xvi Clashing again And again their wild cymbals, such fervour phrenetic.1959 J. Prebble Buffalo Soldiers 37 The air was full of the screeching, wing-flapping feasting of the birds, the phrenetic orchestration of insects.

3. Of a person: wildly excited; frantic, furious; overenthusiastic; (in religious matters) fanatical. Also figurative. Cf. frantic adj. 2.

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the mind > emotion > violent emotion > [adjective] > affected by violent emotion

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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > rapture > [adjective]

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α.

?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 109 This..restrained the rude raginge of the frenetick Scotts.

1657 M. Hawke Killing is Murder & No Murder 40 The foolish dictates of such frenetick Impostor.

1819 J. H. Wiffen Aonian Hours (1820) 109 Frenetic zealots.

1872 R. Browning Fifine v How the pennon from its dome, Frenetic to be free, makes one red stretch for home!

1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 27 Oct. 1 Some of the more frenetic of the franc-tireurs of Liberalism.

1989 U.S. Air Sept. 84/2 Thus is born the high-speed, frenetic manager who tries to do everything.

β. 1565 J. Calfhill Aunswere Treat. Crosse f. 23 It is to be feared greately, least their arise some phrenetike persons, which will bragge and boast..that they be Prophetes.1664 N. Ingelo Bentivolio & Urania: 2nd Pt. v. 138 He esteems Prophetick Visions only as Dreams of phrenetick men.1858 Times 4 Nov. 6/4 The chivalrous and phrenetic Montbar, whose name was a cry to hush infants.1878 J. P. Newman in N. Amer. Rev. CXXVII. 321 When inspired, their individuality was intact. They [sacred writers] were never..phrenetic.

†4. Anatomy. = phrenic adj. 1a.

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the world > life > the body > internal organs > diaphragm > [adjective]

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1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Phrenetick Nerves, are those which are called also Stomachick..These descend between the Membranes of the Mediastinum, and send forth Branches into them.

1706 in Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.)

B. n.

An insane or delirious person; = frantic n. Now rare. Perhaps Obsolete.

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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mentally ill person > [noun] > mad person

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α.

1528 J. Skelton Honorificatissimo: Replycacion agaynst Yong Scolers sig. Biii Agaynst these frenetykes Agaynst these lunatykes.

1694 W. Molyneux Let. 17 Feb. in J. Locke Corr. (1979) V. 21 How comes it to pas that Want of Consciousnes cannot be proved for a Drunkard as wel as for a Frenitick?

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. iv. 32 All men's minds may go mad; and ‘believe him’, as the frenetic will do, ‘because it is impossible’.

β. 1581 J. Hamilton Catholik Traictise f. 142^v As the phrenetikis quha ar onlie vyse be thair auin fulish consait.1607 J. Marston What you Will ii. i A company of odd phrenetici Did eate my youth.] 1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion xvii. Illustr. 272 [They] made this poore King..euen as a Phrenetique, comit what posterity receiues now amongst the worst actions..of Princes.1702 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth (ed. 2) 87 A common Fold of Phreneticks and Bedlams.1881 W. R. Smith Old Test. in Jewish Church x. 281 The visions of poor phrenetics.

Derivatives

freˈneticness n. rare

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1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Phreneticness, Frenzicalness, madness.

1993 Times (Nexis) 10 Nov. They have mellowed now; none of them kept that pace of freneticness.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	frenetic
释义	freneticadj.n. Brit. /frᵻˈnɛtɪk/, U.S. /frəˈnɛdɪk/ Forms: α. Middle English frenetyk, Middle English–1500s frenetike; Middle English frena-, 1500s frenetyke, frenetik, 1500s–1600s frenetick, 1600s frenitick, 1800s frenetic. β. 1500s phrenetike, 1500s–1600s phrenetique, 1600s phreneticke, 1600s–1700s phrenetick, 1800s phrenitic, 1600s– phrenetic. Etymology: < Old French frenetike ( Dial. S. Greg. 12–13th cent.), < Latin phrenēticus , < late Greek ϕρενητικός (Epict.), for ϕρενῑτικός afflicted with ϕρενῖτις delirium, < ϕρήν , ϕρεν- heart, mind. Formerly stressed ˈphrenetic , whence frantic adj. and n. A. adj. †1. a. Of a person: delirious; mentally deranged; insane, crazy; = frantic adj. 1. 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 α. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 27 Þe resonable spirit is Ilette of alle his werkes in body, as it is Isene a mased madde man and frenetik [L. in maniacis et in freneticis] & in oþir þat ofte leseþ vse of resoun. a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) v. 206 And in his throwes frenetik [v.r. frentyk] and madde He corseth..Cupide. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 178 Frenetyke [v.rr. frentyk, ffrentyke], freneticus, maniatus. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 193/1 Saynt marcial heled one that was frenatyke. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 84 Donald and quha with him appeiret frenetik. β. 1558 J. Knox First Blast against Monstruous Regiment Women f. 9^v The foolishe, madde and phrenetike shal gouerne the discrete.1597 King James VI & I Daemonologie (1924) 47 [Witches] can make folkes to becom phreneticque or maniacque.1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xxxiv. 215 Those that became Phrenetique, Lunatique, or Epileptique.1751 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. III 179 They [sc. Persons bit by the Tarantula]..are Phrenetic and delirious.1778 Philos. Trans. 1777 (Royal Soc.) 68 206 All that survived..were to the highest degree phrenetic and outrageous. b. Of a disease: characterized or attended by delirium or temporary madness; = frantic adj. 3a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > delirious or raving wedingc725 lighta1500 light-headeda1500 ravinga1525 raving mad1541 frenetical1548 idle1548 delirant1600 deliring1600 frenetic1609 phrenitic1649 delirous1656 delirious1670 deliriate1689 rambling1700 straggle-brained1725 allochoos1811 ravers1938 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > delirious or raving > attended by delirium frenetical1548 frenetic1609 α. 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 50 Sometimes he shuts up [the man] as in frenetick, or infectious diseases. β. 1609 S. Daniel Civile Wares (rev. ed.) iv. v. 88 Impotent, By meanes of his Phreneticque maladie.1754 Connoisseur (1755) No. 28. 163 Tom Dare-Devil..was carried off last week by a phrenetic fever. 2. Of a quality, power, act, process, etc.: frenzied, manic; wild, passionate; rapid and energetic in an uncontrolled or unrestrained way. Cf. frantic adj. 3b. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > of actions or things frenetica1529 fanatic1533 frenetical1548 insane1842 crazy1855 swivel-eyed1983 α. a1529 J. Skelton Against Venemous Tongues viii. 10 Ye are so full of vertibilite, And of frenetyke folabilite. 1816 M. Keating Trav. (1817) I. 198 [Of Mohammedanism] Its frenetic might, enthusiasm, too, evaporating in the diffusion of conquest. 1895 ‘M. Corelli’ Sorrows Satan 378 They run up the gamut of baffled passion to the pitch of frenetic hysteria. 1958 Observer 23 Nov. 16/3 On one side was the frenetic..bumptiousness of the rock-'n'-rollers, on the other the calculated indifference of the cool cats. 1975 D. Davin Closing Times iv. 75 The demands she made on herself..grew greater, more frenetic and obsessive, every year. 1995 Wall St. Jrnl. 5 June a 12/1 ‘ER’ was the season's break-out hit, and admittedly, it's riveting..the same way a car crash is—lots of blood and frenetic action. β. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 139 Rending the membranes, cause all our motions to be head-strong and giddy, our sensations phrenetick and mad.1815 M. A. Schimmelpenninck Demolit. Monastery Port Royal III. 268 He struck every one who approached him, with the most phrenitic violence.1860 T. Martin tr. Horace Odes i. xvi Clashing again And again their wild cymbals, such fervour phrenetic.1959 J. Prebble Buffalo Soldiers 37 The air was full of the screeching, wing-flapping feasting of the birds, the phrenetic orchestration of insects. 3. Of a person: wildly excited; frantic, furious; overenthusiastic; (in religious matters) fanatical. Also figurative. Cf. frantic adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > violent emotion > [adjective] > affected by violent emotion woodc900 reighOE mada1350 furiousc1374 raginga1425 savagea1450 rageous1486 frenetic?c1550 frantic1561 frenetical1588 impotent1596 transported1600 violent1601 turbulent1609 dementing1729 enfrenzied1823 wild1868 haywire1934 wigged-out1977 society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > rapture > [adjective] frenetic?c1550 seraphical1581 frenetical1588 ecstatical1600 zealot1641 ecstatic1645 rapturous1656 vowed1665 seraphica1668 synagoguish1690 frantic?1715 solid1740 ecstasied1787 religionistic1842 α. ?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 109 This..restrained the rude raginge of the frenetick Scotts. 1657 M. Hawke Killing is Murder & No Murder 40 The foolish dictates of such frenetick Impostor. 1819 J. H. Wiffen Aonian Hours (1820) 109 Frenetic zealots. 1872 R. Browning Fifine v How the pennon from its dome, Frenetic to be free, makes one red stretch for home! 1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 27 Oct. 1 Some of the more frenetic of the franc-tireurs of Liberalism. 1989 U.S. Air Sept. 84/2 Thus is born the high-speed, frenetic manager who tries to do everything. β. 1565 J. Calfhill Aunswere Treat. Crosse f. 23 It is to be feared greately, least their arise some phrenetike persons, which will bragge and boast..that they be Prophetes.1664 N. Ingelo Bentivolio & Urania: 2nd Pt. v. 138 He esteems Prophetick Visions only as Dreams of phrenetick men.1858 Times 4 Nov. 6/4 The chivalrous and phrenetic Montbar, whose name was a cry to hush infants.1878 J. P. Newman in N. Amer. Rev. CXXVII. 321 When inspired, their individuality was intact. They [sacred writers] were never..phrenetic. †4. Anatomy. = phrenic adj. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > internal organs > diaphragm > [adjective] diaphragmatic1656 phrenic1685 frenetic1704 gastrophrenic1854 diaphragmal1890 cardiodiaphragmatic1907 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Phrenetick Nerves, are those which are called also Stomachick..These descend between the Membranes of the Mediastinum, and send forth Branches into them. 1706 in Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) B. n. An insane or delirious person; = frantic n. Now rare. Perhaps Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mentally ill person > [noun] > mad person woodman1297 madmanc1330 lunatic1377 franticc1380 madwomana1438 March harec1500 Bedlam beggar1525 fanaticc1525 bedlama1529 frenetic1528 Jack o' Bedlam1528 Tom o' Bedlam1569 crack-brain1570 madbrain1570 Tom1575 madcap1589 gelt1596 madhead1600 brainsick1605 madpash1611 non compos1628 madling1638 bedlam-man1658 bedlamerc1675 fan1682 bedlamite1691 cracka1701 lymphatic1708 shatter-brain1719 mad1729 maniaca1763 non compos mentis1765 shatter-pate1775 shatter-wit1775 insane1786 craze1831 dement1857 crazy1867 crackpot1883 loony1884 bug1885 psychopath1885 dingbat1887 psychopathic1890 ding-a-ling1899 meshuggener1900 détraqué1902 maddiea1903 nut1908 mental1913 ding1929 lakes1934 wack1938 fruitcake1942 nutty1942 barm-pot1951 nutcake1953 nutter1958 nutcase1959 nut job1959 meshuga1962 nutsy1964 headcase1965 nutball1968 headbanger1973 nutso1975 wacko1977 nut bar1978 mentalist1990 α. 1528 J. Skelton Honorificatissimo: Replycacion agaynst Yong Scolers sig. Biii Agaynst these frenetykes Agaynst these lunatykes. 1694 W. Molyneux Let. 17 Feb. in J. Locke Corr. (1979) V. 21 How comes it to pas that Want of Consciousnes cannot be proved for a Drunkard as wel as for a Frenitick? 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. iv. 32 All men's minds may go mad; and ‘believe him’, as the frenetic will do, ‘because it is impossible’. β. 1581 J. Hamilton Catholik Traictise f. 142^v As the phrenetikis quha ar onlie vyse be thair auin fulish consait.1607 J. Marston What you Will ii. i A company of odd phrenetici Did eate my youth.] 1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion xvii. Illustr. 272 [They] made this poore King..euen as a Phrenetique, comit what posterity receiues now amongst the worst actions..of Princes.1702 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth (ed. 2) 87 A common Fold of Phreneticks and Bedlams.1881 W. R. Smith Old Test. in Jewish Church x. 281 The visions of poor phrenetics. Derivatives freˈneticness n. rare ΚΠ 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Phreneticness, Frenzicalness, madness. 1993 Times (Nexis) 10 Nov. They have mellowed now; none of them kept that pace of freneticness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.a1398
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