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The condition of being mad; insanity; lunacy.

Frenzy; madness. [Obs.] Webster (1661).

festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness. Even bacchanalian madness has its charms. Cowper.

morbidly voracious appetite; bulimia. -- Canine letter, the letter r. See R. -- Canine madness, hydrophobia. -- Canine toth, a toth situated between the incisor and bicuspid teeth, so called because well developen in dogs; usually, the third tooth from the front on each side of each jaw; an eyetooth, or the corresp…

And when a lady's in the case. You know all other things give place. Gay. You think this madness but a common case. Pope. I am in case to justle a constable, Shak.

er pertaining to one's self; the admission of a debt, obligation, or crime. With a crafty madness keeps aloof, When we would bring him on to some confession Of his true state. Shak.

A kind of madness in which men fancy themselves changed into dogs, and imitate the voice and habits of that animal.

ime; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle. We have trifled too long already; it is madness to dally any longer. Calamy. We have put off God, and dallied with his grace. Barrow.

- usually dependent on a fever or some other disease, and so distinguished from mania, or madness.

The act of depriving of reason; madness. Whitlock.

Insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy.

A form of madness in which the patient conceives himself possessed of devils.

Derangement of the mind; madness. Atterbury.

Violent distraction of mind; violent emotion; excessive grief of anxiety; insanity; madness. [Obs.] That unmatched form and feature of blown youth Blasted with ecstasy. Shak. Our words will but increase his ecstasy. Marlowe.

To fill with rage; to provoke to frenzy or madness; to make furious.

nd approaching to distraction; violent and temporary derangement of the mental faculties; madness; rage. All else is towering frenzy and distraction. Addison. The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling. Shak.

n extent; extreme limit of energy or condition; as, the height of a fever, of passion, of madness, of folly; the height of a tempest. My grief was at the height before thou camest. Shak. On height, aloud. [Obs.] [He] spake these same words, all on hight. Chaucer.

An abnormal dread of water, said to be a symptom of canine madness; hence:

Impertinence. [R.] O, matter and impertinency mixed! Reason in madness! Shak.

Causing insanity or madness. [R.] Or have we eaten on the insaneroot That takes the reason prisoner Shak.