[f. FRENZY sb.] trans. To drive (a person) to frenzy, infuriate.

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1810.  Sir A. Boswell, Edinburgh, 155.

        A Poet, in ill-humour or in passion,
Frenzied by change of Manners and Town Fashion,
Rails at the change, and summons poor Edina,
To mend her ways with terrible subpœna.

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1857.  Buckle, Civiliz., I. vii. 439. The [French] people, frenzied by centuries of oppression, practised the most revolting cruelties, saddening the hour of their triumph by crimes that disgraced the noble cause for which they struggled.

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1872.  Daily News, 18 March. The bare thought … frenzies him to the verge of madness.

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  Hence Frenzying ppl. a.

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1795.  Southey, Joan of Arc, II. 270.

        All was still, save that ever and anon
Some mother raised o’er her expiring child
A cry of frenzying anguish.

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1821.  Shelley, Prometh. Unb., I. 266.

        Rain then thy plagues upon me here,
Ghastly disease, and frenzying fear.

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