a. Obs. Also 6 fransical, 8 phrensical. [f. as prec. + -AL.] Affected with, characterized by, or of the nature of frenzy; crazy, mad; wildly enthusiastic.
a. 1586. Sidney, Wanstead Play, in Arcadia, etc. (1629), 619. A certaine fransical maladie they call Loue.
1677. Gilpin, Dæmonol. (1867), 50. Their scorns shall have no more impression upon us, than the ravings of a frenzical Person that knows not what he speaks.
1710. W. Gibson, Diet. Horses, vii. (1731), 111. When a horse is poisoned … he will … sometimes be Phrenzical and delirious.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), V. viii. 96. I touched a delicate string, on purpose to set her in such a passion before the women, as might confirm the intimation I had given of a phrensical disorder.
