phrenetic
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of phrenetic
1325–75; < Latin phrenēticus < Late Greek phrenētikós, Greek phrenītikós frenzied ( see phrenitis, -ic); replacing Middle English frenetike < Anglo-French < Latin as above; cf. frenetic
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I swore it in a mighty frenzy of repentance, in a very lust to do battle with Satan and with my own flesh and a phrenetic joy to engage in the awful combat.
From The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza by Rafael Sabatini
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
As the recitation of the prayers proceeds, you see the Boktè trembling in every limb, and gradually working himself up into phrenetic convulsions.
From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] by Evariste Regis Huc
It was a phrenetic indictment, but under the paltry rhetoric of the man there was genuine indignation and pain.
From The Inheritors by Joseph Conrad
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
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