bedlamite
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of bedlamite
Example Sentences
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"I was mad, Jack; as mad as any Bedlamite," he would say.
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis
Don't be offended with me, Tom, only make allowances, and if I sometimes talk a bit like a Bedlamite don't repeat my ravings; that's all.
From The Tenants of Malory Volume 2 of 3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
Thus perished an ardent and learned youth, who ought only to have been condemned as a Bedlamite.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Disraeli, Isaac
That a tree can be both a tree and not a tree, is an idea which the angels, or the devils, may entertain, and which no doubt many an earthly Bedlamite, or Transcendentalist, does.
From Eureka: A Prose Poem by Poe, Edgar A.
He darted to the stable-yard, sprang on his horse, and galloped away from Hernshaw Castle, with the face, the eyes, the gestures, the incoherent mutterings of a raving Bedlamite.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 by Various
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