lunaticadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈluːnətɪk/,

/ˈljuːnətɪk/, U.S.

/ˈlunəˌtɪk/

Etymology: < late Latin lūnāticus, < Latin lūna moon: see -atic suffix. Compare French lunatique, Spanish lunatico, Italian lunatico.

A. adj.

a. Originally, affected with the kind of insanity that was supposed to have recurring periods dependent on the changes of the moon. In modern use, synonymous with insane adj.; current in popular and legal language, but not now employed technically by physicians.

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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

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

lunaticc1290

mooneda1557

moonsick1562

moonburnt1568

moonstruck1674

c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 369/99 He hadde ane douȝter þat was lunatyke.

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. x. 107 Þe whiche aren lunatik lollers and leperes a-boute, And mad as þe mone sitt.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvi. xcv. 878 It is yseyde þat he [sc. Topazius]..helpeþ aȝenst þe passioun lunatik.

1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) vii. ii. 165 b He was..euery moneth once Lunaticke.

1564 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. App. lviii. 197 All this trouble..was when you were lunatike and not your owne man.

1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. iii. sig. F4^v (stage direct.) She runnes lunatick.

1600 tr. T. Garzoni Hosp. Incurable Fooles 77 If the moone be euill placed, either it maketh men extatical, lunatick, or subiect to the kings euill.

1604 S. Grahame Passionate Sparke sig. E4^v The greatest Foole is wise if he be rich, And wisedome flowes from his Lunatique brayne.

1640 J. Yorke Union of Honour 110 This Alice fell lunaticke, and was divorced from the said Gilbert.

1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. vii, in Hist. Wks. (1813) I. 548 The presumptive heir to the throne was lunatic.

1885 Sat. Rev. 18 July 80/1 One of the most distinctive marks of the lunatic mind is that it reasons sanely from insane premises.

1889 Spectator 21 Dec. 881/1 The House of Castile, which, after fighting and reigning for nearly eight hundred years, terminated in a lunatic girl.

b. Of things: indicating lunacy; crazy.

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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mentally ill person > [adjective] > characteristic of

brainsick1571

maddish1573

lunatic1608

madly1816

nuttish1923

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 15 Bedlam beggers, who with roring voyces..Sometime with lunaticke bans, sometime with prayers Enforce their charitie.

1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre i. iii. 6 in Wks. II A notable hypocriticall vermine it is..of a most lunatique conscience, and splene.

1861 Bushnell Char. Jesus 48 There have been great enthusiasts in the world, and they have shown their infirmity by lunatic airs, appropriate to their extravagance.

c. figurative. Madly foolish, frantic, idiotic, ‘mad’.

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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > madness, extreme folly > [adjective]

woodc900

madc1300

wild1515

hare-brained1548

idle1548

harish1552

frantic1561

hare-brain1566

lunatic1571

lunatical1599

datelessa1686

flaky1964

tonto1982

1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (iv. 5) If lunatik rashnesse have caryed any into sinne.

a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. I4 Greefe makes me lunatick.

1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore iv. iv. 104 I am sicke Of that disease, all loue is lunaticke.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion To Rdr. sig. A Nothing [is] esteem'd in this lunatique Age, but what is kept in Cabinets.

1857 ‘G. Eliot’ in Westm. Rev. Jan. 8 The seventh [Satire]..contains nothing in particular except lunatic flattery of George the First.

1859 Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 155 805 No policy can be more lunatic than the policy of annexation.

†2.

a. Influenced by the moon. Obsolete.

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the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > [adjective] > influenced by

lunaticc1430

lunar1626

sublunar1959

c1430 J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte 6177 Ther [sc. women's] hertys chaunge never..Ther sect ys no thing lunatyke.

a1592 R. Greene Mamillia (1593) ii. sig. D3^v By natiuitie they be lunatikes, not taking this worde as the English men do, for starke mad, but as borne vnder the influence of Luna, and therfore as firme..as the melting waxe.

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 14 I that was borne to suppresse & treade down sinne vnder foote, in the night time, (when that sinne-inhabited element is wont to be most lunaticke) walke on the crests of the surges as on the dry land.

b. Farriery. Affected with moonblindness; moon-blind, moon-eyed. Obsolete.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [adjective] > disorders of eyes

varon1451

lunatic1566

walled1577

wall-eyed1590

moon-eyed1610

moon-blind1689

1566 T. Blundeville Order curing Horses Dis. f. 24^v, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe Of Lunatike eyes.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 124 The broken wineded, the lunaticke, and the manginesse, called the farcine.

1607 G. Markham Cavelarice Table sig. A2^v Lunatike eyes or moone eies.

1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved xvi. 232 In Lunatick or Moon-blind Horses.

B. n.

a. A lunatic person; a person of unsound mind; a madman.

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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

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. Prol. 123 Thanne loked vp a lunatik, a lene thing with-alle.

c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 23 Lunatikes ben sich men þat han cours of þer siikenesse bi movyng of þe moone.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. i. 7 The lunatick, The louer, and the Poet are of imagination all compact.

1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. i. 247 a A Lunatique that hath sometime his vnderstanding and sometime not.

1735 Motte in Swift's Lett. (1768) IV. 107 An Hospital for Lunaticks and Idiots.

1742 Act 15 Geo. II c. 30 Whereas Persons who have the Misfortune to become Lunaticks, may..be liable to be surprised into unsuitable Marriages.

1757 T. Smollett Reprisal i. viii An English lunatic at full moon, is a very sober animal when compared to a Frenchman in a passion.

1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 315 An infant, a person of nonsane memory, an idiot, a lunatic,..may also be grantees of a copyhold.

1828 A. Halliday Pres. State Lunatics 30 In Perthshire, the idiots are two hundred and eight, the lunatics only one hundred and fifty-nine.

1881 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 113/1 Insane persons (although not lunatics so found by inquisition) may be placed under personal restraint.

1887 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 9 Apr. 808/2 A desperate encounter recently took place..between a lunatic who had escaped from Hatton Asylum and two keepers who were sent in pursuit.

b. figurative. A madly foolish person.

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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > person of weak intellect > [noun] > idiot, crazy person

Jack foolc1405

drivel1478

idiotc1480

nidiot1533

hare-brain1542

hare-copa1566

nidget1579

lunatic1602

flight-head1605

moonling1631

driveller1682

tomfool1683

niddy-noddy1722

imbecile1781

puggle1783

gype1825

eejit1853

nowmun1854

dinlo1873

loon1885

ratbag1890

doughbakea1895

ding-a-ling1899

feeb1914

dingbat1915

bodoh1922

diddy1933

Nimrod1933

pranny1949

momo1953

head-the-ball1958

flake1968

fuckwit1969

tattie-bogle1969

div1975

tube1975

wazzock1976

gonzo1977

motorhead1979

prannet1979

twonk1981

dough ball1983

numpty1985

divvy1987

1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus ii. iii. 665 She may be thy Luna, and thou her Lunaticke.

a1631 J. Donne Poems (1650) 4 Vaine lunatique, against these scapes I could Dispute, and conquer, if I would.

1884 Christian World 4 Sept. 667/1 Any man telling the farmers of Ireland not to pay their rents would be a lunatic.

Compounds

C1. attributive.

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1828 Sir A. Halliday 31 Dumfries has a small lunatic establishment, attached to the County Infirmary.

1885 Times 4 Aug. 9/4 A page from the lunatic entry book had been surreptitiously removed.

C2.

lunatic asylum n. = lunatic house n.

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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital for the mentally ill

bedlam-house1525

dull-house1622

madhouse1649

bedlam1663

lunatic hospital1762

asylum1776

retreat1796

lunatic house1813

lunatic asylum1828

maison de santé1843

idiot asylum1848

rat house1854

bughouse1887

Colney Hatch1891

booby hatch1896

mental hospital1898

booby house1900

nut factory1900

nut collegec1906

nuthouse1906

monkey house1910

booby-hutch1914

nuttery1915

loony bin1919

nut hatch1928

silly house1930

bin1938

snake-pit1947

funny farm1950

1828 Sir A. Halliday (title) A General View of the Present State of Lunatics, and Lunatic Asylums, in Great Britain and Ireland.

lunatic fringe n. a minority group of adherents to a political or other movement or set of beliefs; also attributive.

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society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [noun] > a factionary or partisan > body of > minority

lunatic fringe1913

society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [noun] > minority group

lunatic fringe1913

Wee Frees1953

1913 T. Roosevelt Hist. as Lit. 305 There is apt to be a lunatic fringe among the votaries of any forward movement.

1936 Economist 4 Jan. 3/1 Dr. Townsend has now left all his rivals behind in competition for the votes of the lunatic fringe.

1945 ‘G. Orwell’ in Polemic i. 41 The lunatic fringe has even contrived to be simultaneously pro-Russian and pro-Nazi.

1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris (U.K. ed.) iii. 59 Most of the paintings are imitations of other paintings, either conscious or unconscious, ranging from primitives and false primitives to the latest lunatic fringe.

1953 Manch. Guardian Weekly 21 May 15/4 Five [letters]..refer to his ‘plug-ugly tactics’, the ‘lunatic fringe’ brand of anti-communism.

1958 Times 9 Sept. 9/3 The lunatic fringe of society, to which only too many irresponsible hoaxers here and in America belong, finds the telephone its best friend.

1968 Guardian 12 Dec. 9/1 Lunatic-fringe Utopians call for something entirely new.

1969 Observer 23 Nov. 25/3 Views like these, as anyone who has listened to a few conversations on the verandahs of suburban Kingston will recognise, aren't lunatic fringe.

1970 Observer 11 Oct. 32/3 Both sides..have what you might call lunatic fringes; on the middle-aged right there are those who would lynch anyone with long hair, on the young left..there are those who refuse to state their case rationally.

1973 D. Ramsay Deadly Discretion 175 Antique shops were magnets for the lunatic fringe.

lunatic hospital n. = lunatic house n.

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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital for the mentally ill

bedlam-house1525

dull-house1622

madhouse1649

bedlam1663

lunatic hospital1762

asylum1776

retreat1796

lunatic house1813

lunatic asylum1828

maison de santé1843

idiot asylum1848

rat house1854

bughouse1887

Colney Hatch1891

booby hatch1896

mental hospital1898

booby house1900

nut factory1900

nut collegec1906

nuthouse1906

monkey house1910

booby-hutch1914

nuttery1915

loony bin1919

nut hatch1928

silly house1930

bin1938

snake-pit1947

funny farm1950

1762 J. Wesley Jrnl. 21 Dec. (1827) III. 120 I doubt this is not the case of any other lunatic hospital.

1887 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 2 Apr. 736/1 That the registered lunatic hospitals should not be subjected to special restrictions and disabilities.

†lunatic house n. a hospital established for the reception and treatment of lunatics.

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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital for the mentally ill

bedlam-house1525

dull-house1622

madhouse1649

bedlam1663

lunatic hospital1762

asylum1776

retreat1796

lunatic house1813

lunatic asylum1828

maison de santé1843

idiot asylum1848

rat house1854

bughouse1887

Colney Hatch1891

booby hatch1896

mental hospital1898

booby house1900

nut factory1900

nut collegec1906

nuthouse1906

monkey house1910

booby-hutch1914

nuttery1915

loony bin1919

nut hatch1928

silly house1930

bin1938

snake-pit1947

funny farm1950

1813 R. Powell in Med. Trans. (Royal Coll. of Physicians) 4 139 The proportion of patients returned as having been received into lunatic houses.

lunatic soup n. Australian and New Zealand slang alcoholic drink.

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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun]

drink1042

liquor1340

bousea1350

cidera1382

dwale1393

sicera1400

barrelc1400

strong drinkc1405

watera1475

swig1548

tipple1581

amber1598

tickle-brain1598

malt pie1599

swill1602

spicket1615

lap1618

John Barleycornc1625

pottle1632

upsy Englisha1640

upsy Friese1648

tipplage1653

heartsease1668

fuddle1680

rosin1691

tea1693

suck1699

guzzlea1704

alcohol1742

the right stuff1748

intoxicant1757

lush1790

tear-brain1796

demon1799

rum1799

poison1805

fogram1808

swizzle1813

gatter1818

wine(s) and spirit(s)1819

mother's milkc1821

skink1823

alcoholics1832

jough1834

alky1844

waipiro1845

medicine1847

stimulant1848

booze1859

tiddly1859

neck oil1860

lotion1864

shrab1867

nose paint1880

fixing1882

wet1894

rabbit1895

shicker1900

jollop1920

mule1920

giggle-water1929

rookus juice1929

River Ouse1931

juice1932

lunatic soup1933

wallop1933

skimish1936

sauce1940

turps1945

grog1946

joy juice1960

1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 6 Sept. 42/1 Lunatic soup, as the few fellows about who knew him as Darkie called the brandy he drank.

1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 45 Lunatic soup, cheap red wine.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	lunatic
释义	lunaticadj.n. Brit. /ˈluːnətɪk/, /ˈljuːnətɪk/, U.S. /ˈlunəˌtɪk/ Etymology: < late Latin lūnāticus, < Latin lūna moon: see -atic suffix. Compare French lunatique, Spanish lunatico, Italian lunatico. A. adj. 1. a. Originally, affected with the kind of insanity that was supposed to have recurring periods dependent on the changes of the moon. In modern use, synonymous with insane adj.; current in popular and legal language, but not now employed technically by physicians. 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 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > lunatic lunaticc1290 mooneda1557 moonsick1562 moonburnt1568 moonstruck1674 c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 369/99 He hadde ane douȝter þat was lunatyke. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. x. 107 Þe whiche aren lunatik lollers and leperes a-boute, And mad as þe mone sitt. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvi. xcv. 878 It is yseyde þat he [sc. Topazius]..helpeþ aȝenst þe passioun lunatik. 1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) vii. ii. 165 b He was..euery moneth once Lunaticke. 1564 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. App. lviii. 197 All this trouble..was when you were lunatike and not your owne man. 1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. iii. sig. F4^v (stage direct.) She runnes lunatick. 1600 tr. T. Garzoni Hosp. Incurable Fooles 77 If the moone be euill placed, either it maketh men extatical, lunatick, or subiect to the kings euill. 1604 S. Grahame Passionate Sparke sig. E4^v The greatest Foole is wise if he be rich, And wisedome flowes from his Lunatique brayne. 1640 J. Yorke Union of Honour 110 This Alice fell lunaticke, and was divorced from the said Gilbert. 1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. vii, in Hist. Wks. (1813) I. 548 The presumptive heir to the throne was lunatic. 1885 Sat. Rev. 18 July 80/1 One of the most distinctive marks of the lunatic mind is that it reasons sanely from insane premises. 1889 Spectator 21 Dec. 881/1 The House of Castile, which, after fighting and reigning for nearly eight hundred years, terminated in a lunatic girl. b. Of things: indicating lunacy; crazy. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mentally ill person > [adjective] > characteristic of brainsick1571 maddish1573 lunatic1608 madly1816 nuttish1923 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 15 Bedlam beggers, who with roring voyces..Sometime with lunaticke bans, sometime with prayers Enforce their charitie. View more context for this quotation 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre i. iii. 6 in Wks. II A notable hypocriticall vermine it is..of a most lunatique conscience, and splene. 1861 Bushnell Char. Jesus 48 There have been great enthusiasts in the world, and they have shown their infirmity by lunatic airs, appropriate to their extravagance. c. figurative. Madly foolish, frantic, idiotic, ‘mad’. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > madness, extreme folly > [adjective] woodc900 madc1300 wild1515 hare-brained1548 idle1548 harish1552 frantic1561 hare-brain1566 lunatic1571 lunatical1599 datelessa1686 flaky1964 tonto1982 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (iv. 5) If lunatik rashnesse have caryed any into sinne. a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. I4 Greefe makes me lunatick. 1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore iv. iv. 104 I am sicke Of that disease, all loue is lunaticke. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion To Rdr. sig. A Nothing [is] esteem'd in this lunatique Age, but what is kept in Cabinets. 1857 ‘G. Eliot’ in Westm. Rev. Jan. 8 The seventh [Satire]..contains nothing in particular except lunatic flattery of George the First. 1859 Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 155 805 No policy can be more lunatic than the policy of annexation. †2. a. Influenced by the moon. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > [adjective] > influenced by lunaticc1430 lunar1626 sublunar1959 c1430 J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte 6177 Ther [sc. women's] hertys chaunge never..Ther sect ys no thing lunatyke. a1592 R. Greene Mamillia (1593) ii. sig. D3^v By natiuitie they be lunatikes, not taking this worde as the English men do, for starke mad, but as borne vnder the influence of Luna, and therfore as firme..as the melting waxe. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 14 I that was borne to suppresse & treade down sinne vnder foote, in the night time, (when that sinne-inhabited element is wont to be most lunaticke) walke on the crests of the surges as on the dry land. b. Farriery. Affected with moonblindness; moon-blind, moon-eyed. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [adjective] > disorders of eyes varon1451 lunatic1566 walled1577 wall-eyed1590 moon-eyed1610 moon-blind1689 1566 T. Blundeville Order curing Horses Dis. f. 24^v, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe Of Lunatike eyes. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 124 The broken wineded, the lunaticke, and the manginesse, called the farcine. 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice Table sig. A2^v Lunatike eyes or moone eies. 1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved xvi. 232 In Lunatick or Moon-blind Horses. B. n. a. A lunatic person; a person of unsound mind; a madman. 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 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. Prol. 123 Thanne loked vp a lunatik, a lene thing with-alle. c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 23 Lunatikes ben sich men þat han cours of þer siikenesse bi movyng of þe moone. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. i. 7 The lunatick, The louer, and the Poet are of imagination all compact. View more context for this quotation 1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. i. 247 a A Lunatique that hath sometime his vnderstanding and sometime not. 1735 Motte in Swift's Lett. (1768) IV. 107 An Hospital for Lunaticks and Idiots. 1742 Act 15 Geo. II c. 30 Whereas Persons who have the Misfortune to become Lunaticks, may..be liable to be surprised into unsuitable Marriages. 1757 T. Smollett Reprisal i. viii An English lunatic at full moon, is a very sober animal when compared to a Frenchman in a passion. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 315 An infant, a person of nonsane memory, an idiot, a lunatic,..may also be grantees of a copyhold. 1828 A. Halliday Pres. State Lunatics 30 In Perthshire, the idiots are two hundred and eight, the lunatics only one hundred and fifty-nine. 1881 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 113/1 Insane persons (although not lunatics so found by inquisition) may be placed under personal restraint. 1887 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 9 Apr. 808/2 A desperate encounter recently took place..between a lunatic who had escaped from Hatton Asylum and two keepers who were sent in pursuit. b. figurative. A madly foolish person. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > person of weak intellect > [noun] > idiot, crazy person Jack foolc1405 drivel1478 idiotc1480 nidiot1533 hare-brain1542 hare-copa1566 nidget1579 lunatic1602 flight-head1605 moonling1631 driveller1682 tomfool1683 niddy-noddy1722 imbecile1781 puggle1783 gype1825 eejit1853 nowmun1854 dinlo1873 loon1885 ratbag1890 doughbakea1895 ding-a-ling1899 feeb1914 dingbat1915 bodoh1922 diddy1933 Nimrod1933 pranny1949 momo1953 head-the-ball1958 flake1968 fuckwit1969 tattie-bogle1969 div1975 tube1975 wazzock1976 gonzo1977 motorhead1979 prannet1979 twonk1981 dough ball1983 numpty1985 divvy1987 1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus ii. iii. 665 She may be thy Luna, and thou her Lunaticke. a1631 J. Donne Poems (1650) 4 Vaine lunatique, against these scapes I could Dispute, and conquer, if I would. 1884 Christian World 4 Sept. 667/1 Any man telling the farmers of Ireland not to pay their rents would be a lunatic. Compounds C1. attributive. ΚΠ 1828 Sir A. Halliday 31 Dumfries has a small lunatic establishment, attached to the County Infirmary. 1885 Times 4 Aug. 9/4 A page from the lunatic entry book had been surreptitiously removed. C2. lunatic asylum n. = lunatic house n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital for the mentally ill bedlam-house1525 dull-house1622 madhouse1649 bedlam1663 lunatic hospital1762 asylum1776 retreat1796 lunatic house1813 lunatic asylum1828 maison de santé1843 idiot asylum1848 rat house1854 bughouse1887 Colney Hatch1891 booby hatch1896 mental hospital1898 booby house1900 nut factory1900 nut collegec1906 nuthouse1906 monkey house1910 booby-hutch1914 nuttery1915 loony bin1919 nut hatch1928 silly house1930 bin1938 snake-pit1947 funny farm1950 1828 Sir A. Halliday (title) A General View of the Present State of Lunatics, and Lunatic Asylums, in Great Britain and Ireland. lunatic fringe n. a minority group of adherents to a political or other movement or set of beliefs; also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [noun] > a factionary or partisan > body of > minority lunatic fringe1913 society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [noun] > minority group lunatic fringe1913 Wee Frees1953 1913 T. Roosevelt Hist. as Lit. 305 There is apt to be a lunatic fringe among the votaries of any forward movement. 1936 Economist 4 Jan. 3/1 Dr. Townsend has now left all his rivals behind in competition for the votes of the lunatic fringe. 1945 ‘G. Orwell’ in Polemic i. 41 The lunatic fringe has even contrived to be simultaneously pro-Russian and pro-Nazi. 1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris (U.K. ed.) iii. 59 Most of the paintings are imitations of other paintings, either conscious or unconscious, ranging from primitives and false primitives to the latest lunatic fringe. 1953 Manch. Guardian Weekly 21 May 15/4 Five [letters]..refer to his ‘plug-ugly tactics’, the ‘lunatic fringe’ brand of anti-communism. 1958 Times 9 Sept. 9/3 The lunatic fringe of society, to which only too many irresponsible hoaxers here and in America belong, finds the telephone its best friend. 1968 Guardian 12 Dec. 9/1 Lunatic-fringe Utopians call for something entirely new. 1969 Observer 23 Nov. 25/3 Views like these, as anyone who has listened to a few conversations on the verandahs of suburban Kingston will recognise, aren't lunatic fringe. 1970 Observer 11 Oct. 32/3 Both sides..have what you might call lunatic fringes; on the middle-aged right there are those who would lynch anyone with long hair, on the young left..there are those who refuse to state their case rationally. 1973 D. Ramsay Deadly Discretion 175 Antique shops were magnets for the lunatic fringe. lunatic hospital n. = lunatic house n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital for the mentally ill bedlam-house1525 dull-house1622 madhouse1649 bedlam1663 lunatic hospital1762 asylum1776 retreat1796 lunatic house1813 lunatic asylum1828 maison de santé1843 idiot asylum1848 rat house1854 bughouse1887 Colney Hatch1891 booby hatch1896 mental hospital1898 booby house1900 nut factory1900 nut collegec1906 nuthouse1906 monkey house1910 booby-hutch1914 nuttery1915 loony bin1919 nut hatch1928 silly house1930 bin1938 snake-pit1947 funny farm1950 1762 J. Wesley Jrnl. 21 Dec. (1827) III. 120 I doubt this is not the case of any other lunatic hospital. 1887 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 2 Apr. 736/1 That the registered lunatic hospitals should not be subjected to special restrictions and disabilities. †lunatic house n. a hospital established for the reception and treatment of lunatics. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital for the mentally ill bedlam-house1525 dull-house1622 madhouse1649 bedlam1663 lunatic hospital1762 asylum1776 retreat1796 lunatic house1813 lunatic asylum1828 maison de santé1843 idiot asylum1848 rat house1854 bughouse1887 Colney Hatch1891 booby hatch1896 mental hospital1898 booby house1900 nut factory1900 nut collegec1906 nuthouse1906 monkey house1910 booby-hutch1914 nuttery1915 loony bin1919 nut hatch1928 silly house1930 bin1938 snake-pit1947 funny farm1950 1813 R. Powell in Med. Trans. (Royal Coll. of Physicians) 4 139 The proportion of patients returned as having been received into lunatic houses. lunatic soup n. Australian and New Zealand slang alcoholic drink. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun] drink1042 liquor1340 bousea1350 cidera1382 dwale1393 sicera1400 barrelc1400 strong drinkc1405 watera1475 swig1548 tipple1581 amber1598 tickle-brain1598 malt pie1599 swill1602 spicket1615 lap1618 John Barleycornc1625 pottle1632 upsy Englisha1640 upsy Friese1648 tipplage1653 heartsease1668 fuddle1680 rosin1691 tea1693 suck1699 guzzlea1704 alcohol1742 the right stuff1748 intoxicant1757 lush1790 tear-brain1796 demon1799 rum1799 poison1805 fogram1808 swizzle1813 gatter1818 wine(s) and spirit(s)1819 mother's milkc1821 skink1823 alcoholics1832 jough1834 alky1844 waipiro1845 medicine1847 stimulant1848 booze1859 tiddly1859 neck oil1860 lotion1864 shrab1867 nose paint1880 fixing1882 wet1894 rabbit1895 shicker1900 jollop1920 mule1920 giggle-water1929 rookus juice1929 River Ouse1931 juice1932 lunatic soup1933 wallop1933 skimish1936 sauce1940 turps1945 grog1946 joy juice1960 1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 6 Sept. 42/1 Lunatic soup, as the few fellows about who knew him as Darkie called the brandy he drank. 1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 45 Lunatic soup, cheap red wine. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.c1290
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