phrenzy

• They locked her up and all who went to see her called it phrenzy or melancholy. —  AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MADAME GUYON
• Schizo-phrenzy, on the suggestion of Aaron Fisher, a reader of my blog. —  www.philadelphiaweekly.com Philadelphia Weekly
• In the case of Schizo-phrenzy, Gurin thinks it's the latter. —  www.philadelphiaweekly.com Philadelphia Weekly
• Professor Lyell, speaking of the Millerite phrenzy, and how some men of pretty sound mind were carried away with it, remarks to this effect: "Religious delusion is like a famine fever, which attacks first the hungry and emaciated, but in its progress cuts down many of the well-fed and robust So it is. —  The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society
• Mr. Brown gives me the following specimen of the phrenzy which prevailed at New York on the opening of the new government. —  Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4

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