phrenetic
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"How you must laugh, stranger, at seeing those miserable creatures who stupidly believe they are copying your country," the beggarly phrenetic continued shouting.
From Sónnica by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Indeed, this word phrenetic or maniac is no reproach; it is identical with mantic --prophetic.
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
But those are more bold than wise who deny their existence, and who profess to explain all occult phenomena and phrenetic moral aberrations by physical causes.
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by G. G. Findlay
Then the engine-driver would go on towards the sound of the guns till you wondered, made uneasy by the signs without, whether he was phrenetic and intended to run the enemy down.
From Waiting for Daylight by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson
The native Irish, then, have a remarkable tradition, as old, at least, as the seventh or eighth century, that phrenetic madmen lose the corporeal quality of weight.
From The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various
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