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lunatic
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Lunatic is an informal term referring to a person who is considered mentally ill , dangerous , foolish or unpredictable, conditions once attributed to lunacy . The term may be considered insulting in serious contexts in modern times, but is now more likely ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., "affected with periodic insanity, dependent on the changes of the moon," from Old French lunatique , lunage "insane," or directly from Late Latin lunaticus "moon-struck," from Latin luna "moon" (see Luna ). Compare Old English monseoc "lunatic," ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lunatic \Lu"na*tic\, a. [F. lunatique, L. lunaticus, fr. luna the moon. See Lunar .] Affected by lunacy; insane; mad; crazy; demented. Lord, have mercy on my son; for he is lunatic. --Wyclif (Matt. xvii. 15). Of or pertaining to, or suitable for, an insane ...
Usage examples of lunatic.
My mother is an agoraphobic lunatic who walks in her sleep and thinks the world revolves around her.
If Arabin had not been acquainted with the intermittent character of the disease, he would have been at a loss to believe that the person with whom he was in conversation was a fit person to inhabit a lunatic asylum.
At length Arabin made one effort more potent than the others, for the window flew up just as the united strength of the lunatic and his servant burst the door.
As Arabin had not returned, and as the lunatic seemed in a convalescent state, the officer prevailed upon him to start for town.
Just such babblement as that you can read in very learned books, and stuff like that has actually been taught in colleges, and nobody was sent to the lunatic asylum!
This set off a spark of laughter from those in the audience who agreed the Baptist was probably a lunatic, thinking himself the reincarnation of some ancient prophet.
Even as he spoke, Ainslie was reminded of the few dissidents labeled by prosecutors as a lunatic fringe who argued that Elroy Doil, because of his adamant denials, had not been proven guilty.
Trench heard of a man slipping out from Wadi Halfa, crossing the Nile and wandering with the assumed manner of a lunatic southwards, starving and waterless, until one day he was snapped up by a Mahdist caravan and dragged to Dongola as a spy.
She came into the room with an easy gracefulness which would at once command the respect of any lunatic, for easiness is one of the qualities mad people most respect.
Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic, when the fit of escaping is upon him!
East Shoppe in White Plains, except for bill collectors, meter readers, and delivery men sent by the lunatic Iranian, Faud Banidegh, who seemed intent on burying Solly Martin under mountains of Islamic crescents, half in cheap golden metal and the other half in mother of pearl.
My name is Monk Freck, and I used to be a keeper in the state lunatic asylum where Isaac Apgar was confined.
She added that a will had been found which savoured of a lunatic asylum, for she had left all her wealth to the son or daughter that should be born of her, declaring that she was with child.
Since I myself have been an inmate of a lunatic asylum, I cannot but notice that the sophistic tendencies of some of its inmates lean towards the errors of non causa and ignoratio elenche.
TV news had begun to lose their initial jokey tone, but I was still inclined to laugh off the lunatic fringe.