ppl. a. [f. FRENZY v. + -ED1.] Affected with or characterized by frenzy; crazy, mad; distracted, frantic; wildly enthusiastic.
1796. Jane West, Gossip’s Story, I. 156.
| ‘No, I will go!’—Forth from the bow’r | |
| With frantick speed he sprung; | |
| His troubled soul to phrensy’d rage | |
| By fancy’d wrong was stung. |
1796–7. Coleridge, Sonn., To Author of ‘The Robbers,’ 10.
| Could I behold thee in thy loftier mood | |
| Wandering at eve with finely frenzied eye | |
| Beneath some vast old tempest-swinging wood! |
1808. Scott, Marm., I. xxix.
| Thence to Saint Fillan’s blessed well, | |
| And the crazed brain restore. |
1838. Dickens, Nich. Nick., xxviii. Mr. Wititterly rang the bell, and danced in a frenzied manner round the sofa on which Mrs. Wititterly lay.
1874. L. Stephen, Hours in Library (1892), I. ix. 312. Grosser outrages on morality resulted from indiscriminate gatherings of frenzied enthusiasts.
Hence Frenziedly adv., in a frenzied manner.
1856. Kane, Arct. Expl., I. xiv. 158. The original epilepsy, which was the first manifestation of brain disease among them, has been followed by true lunacy. They bark frenziedly at nothing, and walk in straight and curved lines with anxious and unwearying perseverance.
