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  • adjective Archaic form of frenzied.

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Examples

  • The passionate man, phrenzied with rage, we might believe to be animated with the soul of a lion.

    Consolation of Philosophy 2007

  • No such circumstance appeared, but as her eyes glanced, with almost phrenzied eagerness, she perceived something shadowy in a remote corner of the floor; and on approaching, discovered what seemed a dreadful hieroglyphic, a mattrass of straw, in which she thought she beheld the death-bed of the miserable recluse; nay more, that the impression it still retained, was that which her form had left there.

    The Italian 2004

  • Then would He start from the ground on which He had stretched himself, his brows running down with cold sweat, his eyes wild and phrenzied; and He only exchanged the terrible certainty for surmizes scarcely more supportable.

    The Monk 2004

  • The phrenzied groan that diseased imagination extorts from his perverted soul, is as the thunder-clap that reverberates amid the cloud-capt summits of the

    Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney

  • To say it is finished, or fine, would be to talk nonsense; but it is plain, straightforward, common-scene acting, which very much surprised us, more especially from an author, still more from an Irish author; and more still from an author, who in private life is a perfect enthusiast, and a fine phrenzied-eye orator.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 552, June 16, 1832 Various

  • The advocates of abolition -- the phrenzied fanatics of the North, neither sleep nor slumber.

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 Various

  • "Barbarities too dreadful for utterance or contemplation, all that phrenzied passion or brutal ferocity could suggest, were perpetrated on the bodies of these noble and virtuous citizens; nor was it till night put an end to the butchery, that their friends were permitted to convey their mangled remains to a secret and obscure tomb."

    A Wanderer in Holland 1903

  • The passionate man, phrenzied with rage, we might believe to be animated with the soul of a lion.

    The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1896

  • But having hastily checked the outpourings of his resentment he secretly followed them, yet still breathing volumes of deprecations which rose in steaming vapor from his phrenzied brain.

    The Black-Sealed Letter Or, The Misfortunes of a Canadian Cockney. Andrew Learmont Spedon 1857

  • But before morning had dawned upon the billows of the ocean all the poetic fancy that was flickering in his half-phrenzied brain was driven out by a serious attack of sea-sickness.

    The Black-Sealed Letter Or, The Misfortunes of a Canadian Cockney. Andrew Learmont Spedon 1857

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