单词 | maniacal |
释义 | maniacaladj. 1. Affected with mania; behaving or appearing like a maniac. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > affected with mania maniac1597 maniacal1657 bitten1847 1657 Publick Intelligencer No. 106. 60 (advt.) He professedly undertakes the cure of Maniacal and Distracted people, whose endeavours God hath blessed to a perfect cure of multitudes, which have been deprived of their understanding. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 704 When Maniacal persons..speak in Languages, which they had never learnt. 1697 J. Sergeant Solid Philos. 200 Splenetick or Maniacal Men can fancy they are made of Glass. 1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 4 106 Another patient..became decidedly and violently maniacal. 1865 W. H. O. Sankey Lect. Mental Dis. (1866) iii. 71 Maniacal patients are not necessarily irascible... The maniacal will answer, but speedily ramble again from the point. 1989 G. Langley Understanding Horses (BNC) When at last they are released, they are positively maniacal, and gallop and buck around the paddock. 2. Of, belonging to, or of the nature of mania; characteristic of a maniac; obsessive. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > affected with mania > relating to mania maniac1526 maniacal1701 the mind > emotion > excitement > extravagant or rapturous excitement > [adjective] delirious1599 Bacchical1665 Bacchic1699 maniac1809 manic1823 maniacal1866 1701 N. Grew Cosmol. Sacra iii. i. §29 Epilepsys, and Maniacal Lunacies, do usually conform..to the Age of the Moon. 1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man ii. iv. §3. 384 Maniacal and other Disorders. 1842 T. De Quincey Cicero in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 7/2 The extravagant, almost maniacal, assertion. 1866 Cornhill Mag. Aug. 227 In maniacal frenzy. 1899 S. R. Crockett Kit Kennedy 405 With a quick access of maniacal strength, the prisoner cast his guards..from him. 1902 A. R. Diefendorf tr. E. Kraepelin Clin. Psychiatry 152 Dementia praecox is..characterized by maniacal symptoms followed by melancholia. 1932 Collier's 9 Jan. 12/3 He drove down the road to the Harrisons' place at a maniacal speed. 1988 D. W. Winnicott Human Nature iii. iii. 92 A boy of 6 whose maniacal outbursts indicated a violent disintegration. Derivatives maˈniacally adv. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adverb] > mania maniacally1846 hypomanically1958 1846 E. B. Barrett Let. 10 July in Lett. R. Browning & E. B. Barrett (1899) II. 323 Poor Haydon! Think what an agony life was to him..—the man seeing maniacally in all men the assassins of his fame! 1860 W. Collins Woman in White xiii. 77 An expression of maniacally intense hatred and fear. 1894 G. A. Sala Things I have Seen II. 79 He usually came home..either boisterously, lyrically, pugilistically, or maniacally drunk. 1980 W. Abish How German is It? iii. xxi. 143 Grinning maniacally, he lowered the rifle. 1987 Daily Tel. 3 June 11/5 These short sleepers can get maniacally over-enthusiastic. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1657 |
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