adv. [f. FRANTIC a. + -AL + -LY2.] In a frantic manner.

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1749.  Hurd, Horace’s Art of Poetry, Notes, § 123. She herself, when opening to the chorus her last horrid purpose, says, fiercely indeed, but not frantically.

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1831.  Carlyle, Sart. Res., II. v. Our philosopher, as stoical and cynical as he now looks, was heartily and even frantically in Love.

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1859.  R. F. Burton, Centr. Afr., in Jrnl. Geog. Soc., XXIX. 332. When drunk, the East African is easily irritated; with the screams and excited gestures of a maniac he strides about, frantically flourishing his spear and agitating his bow, probably with nocked arrow.

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