An archaic term for a lunatic

Usage examples of bedlamite.

Indeed, what with the noise of the tempest through the rigging and the flashes of lightning and the pealing of the thunder and the clapping of an unfurled sail in the darkness, and the shouting of orders in a strange language by the Captain of the craft, who was running up and down like a bedlamite, it was like pandemonium with all the devils of the pit broke loose into the night.

And I am asked to lend my chaise and the cattle I have hired to a bedlamite Scotch professor to go seeking a fantastic name through the length of England!

The walls were hung with cloths painted in bedlamite scarlets and purples and oranges--not the rude figures of men and animals common on the teepees, but a geometrical nightmare of interwoven cubes and circles.

Surely four of his small band would be all that the lunatic bedlamite would have hazarded.

Some of the men of the town said that the two pilgrims were outlandish and bedlamite men, but Hopeful took courage to reprove some of the foremost of the mob.

Left to herself, Saxon worked with frantic haste, assuming the calm she did not possess, but which she must impart to the screaming bedlamite upon the floor.

In that seventy-two hours he raved like a bedlamite, unsubdued by the tranquilizers his doctors gave him.

Yet his theory of gravitation is not so impressive a mental feat as his astounding chronology, which establishes him as the king of mental conjurors, but a Bedlamite king whose authority no one now accepts.

Christmas morn in the little village: that widow screeching about highwaymen, then Charlie Parrett riding in facedown, and a slip of a thing running off to London to save herself from a fate worse than death, now this bedlamite.

That a tree can be both a tree and not a tree, is an idea which the angels, or the devils, may entertain, and which no doubt many an earthly Bedlamite, or Transcendentalist, does.

Kim whispered Mairelon glanced down as if he had just remembered her presence "A pack of imbeciles," he answered "And if I'm not mistaken—ah, yes See for yourself " Kim looked back at the hilltop About half of the men were pulling long, baggy, light-colored robes over their heads "They look like Bedlamites to me," Kim muttered "Who—" "Sshi" Mairelon said as the man called Jon said something to Robert that Kim did not catch "No, I didn't," Robert said, evidently answering Jon's ques tion "The girls and the robes were almost more than I could manage as it was I left it with Meredith after the last meet ing " "And Meredith's still not here " Jon's voice sounded gnm "If he doesn't come, you're for it, Robert" "How much longer are you planning to wait, Jon?

Men who had gone honorably buggy under the stress of confinement would have to make room for ordinary Bedlamites.

Any number of devout enthusiasts, annual Stonehenge and Ave-bury Pilgrims, Quacks, Mongers, Bedlamites, each has his tale of real flights over the countryside, above these Ley-lines.

But in a sense she was just as much a witch as the poor bedlamites who were burned for that crime during the ghastly witch hunts of the Middle Ages.

The bedlamites might as well have cut their own throats and been done with it!