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
Example Sentences
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And now, as might be expected, Jack's disorder, which had hitherto been comparatively of the calm and melancholy kind, broke out into the most violent and phrenetic exhibitions.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various
"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
They tell us that, as the disorder proceeds, it eats into the brain; either causing the dog to be destroyed, or driving it phrenetic.
From The Dog by Dinks
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
Yet here I sit, as yet unimmolated on the altar of phrenetic vengeance.
From Hard Cash by Charles Reade
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