Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word lunatick.
Examples
-
Michael Drayton 15631631 praised Christopher Marlowe thus: For that fine madness still he did retain, Which rightly should possess a poets brain.15 Shakespeare, of course, observed that the lunatick, the lover and the poet are of imagination all compact16 and refers to Bedlam twice, in Henry VI Part 2 and King Lear, as well as working a standing joke about the English and madness into Hamlet.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
-
Michael Drayton 15631631 praised Christopher Marlowe thus: For that fine madness still he did retain, Which rightly should possess a poets brain.15 Shakespeare, of course, observed that the lunatick, the lover and the poet are of imagination all compact16 and refers to Bedlam twice, in Henry VI Part 2 and King Lear, as well as working a standing joke about the English and madness into Hamlet.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
-
I now liv in TTI but still get ecks .. exs … peepul look at me reelly stayngly beecus I run arownd lyk a lunatick … evry tym it snows.
Invizibul - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
-
Michael Drayton 15631631 praised Christopher Marlowe thus: For that fine madness still he did retain, Which rightly should possess a poets brain.15 Shakespeare, of course, observed that the lunatick, the lover and the poet are of imagination all compact16 and refers to Bedlam twice, in Henry VI Part 2 and King Lear, as well as working a standing joke about the English and madness into Hamlet.
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
-
Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.
-
And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
-
Also he healed “the lame, the halt, those afflicted with skin diseases and the lunatick.”
Firedoglake » BREAKING: Hayden to Be Named DCI Tomorrow 2006
-
Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.
-
And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
-
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, by contrast, mentally ill—or, to use the terminology of that age, “distracted” or “lunatick”—persons aroused far less interest.
The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.