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Mad; raving; furious; violent; wild and disorderly; distracted. Die, frantic wretch, for this accursed deed! Shak. Torrents of frantic abuse. Macaulay. -- Fran"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Fran"tic*ly, adv. Shak. -- Fran"tic*ness, n. Johnson.

seized or possessed, as a demoniac; raving; mad; crack-brained. [Obs.] Odd, arreptitious, frantic extravagances. Howell.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the Corybantes or their rites; frantic; frenzied; as, a corybantic dance.

A mania or frantic zeal for freedom. [R.] Carlyle.

Rendered fierce or frantic. [Obs.] "Like one enfeloned or distraught." Spenser.

Foolishly. [Archaic] Verstegan (1673). Make him speak fondly like a frantic man. Shak.

Distracted; mad; frantic; phrenetic. Milton.

Frenetic; frantic; frenzied. -- Frenet"ic*al*ly, adv.

Frantic. [Obs.] Orrery.

Affected with frenzy; frantic; maddened. -- Fren"zied-ly, adv. The people frenzied by centuries of oppression. Buckle. Up starting with a frenzied look. Sir W Scott.

Mad; frantic. [R.] They thought that some frenzy distemper had got into his head. Bunyan.

A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow. [Obs.] "Raging frantic froes." Draylon.

Madly enthusiastic; frantic. [Obs.] " Lymphatic rapture. " Sir T. Herbert. Etym: [See Lymphate.] Lymphatic gland (Anat.), one of the solid glandlike bodies connected with the lymphatics or the lacteals; -- called also lymphatic ganglion, and conglobate gland. -- Lymphatic temperament (Old Physiol.), a temperament in w…

A frantic or frenzied woman.

A frantic revel; drunken revelry. See Orgies

r sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated. [Obs.] "Dumbly she passions, frantically she doteth." Shak.

Relating to phrenitis; suffering from frenzy; delirious; mad; frantic; frenetic. -- Phre*net"ic*al*ly, adv.

To render frantic.

Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic. [Obs.] [Written also wode.] Our hoste gan to swear as [if] he were wood. Chaucer.