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Affected by lunacy; insane; mad. Lord, have mercy on my son; for he is lunatic. Wyclif (Matt. xvii. 15).

te, or afflicted persons; as, an asylum for the aged, for the blind, or for the insane; a lunatic asylum; an orphan asylum.

An insane person; a lunatic; a madman. [Obs.] Let's get the bedlam to lead him. Shak.

A hospital for lunatics; -- corrupted into bedlam.

itors. -- Commission of lunacy, a commission authoring and inquiry whether a person is a lunatic or not. -- Commission merchant, one who buys or sells goods on commission, as the agent of others, receiving a rate per cent as his compensation. -- Commission, or Commissioned, officer (Mil.), one who has a commission,…

One to whom the charge of the person or estate of another, as of a lunatic, is committed by suitable authority; a guardian.

omplishment of an elevated purpose; the power of conceiving and expressing the ideal. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact . . . The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, t…

A mad enthusiast; a lunatic. [Obs.]

A man who is mad; lunatic; a crazy person. When a man mistakes his thoughts for person and things, he is mad. A madman is properly so defined. Coleridge.

A raving lunatic; a madman.

As if under the influence of the moon; in the manner of a lunatic. [Obs.] Middleton.

A simpleton; a lunatic. [Obs.]

Mentally affected or deranged by the supposed influence of the moon; lunatic.

Such things, in respect to infants, lunatics, and married women, as are requisite for support suitable to station.

Talking irrationally and wildly; as, a raving lunatic. -- Rav"ing*ly, adv.