Definition of Phrensy. Meaning of Phrensy. Synonyms of Phrensy

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Definition of Phrensy

Phrensy
Phrensy Phren"sy, n. Violent and irrational excitement; delirium. See Frenzy.
Phrensy
Phrensy Phren"sy, v. t. To render frantic.

Meaning of Phrensy from wikipedia

- causing to man, among other diseases, burning fevers, hysterics, and phrensies". Even after astrology and its influence on health and agriculture waned...
- shadow of su****ion upon his honor. While he was susceptible of the perfect phrensy of enthusiasm, and would brave danger and death in every form of duty,...
- Barrymore as Mr Fashion, Thomas Hollingsworth as Taffy, John Bannister as Mr Phrensy, Richard Suett as Cautious, Robert Palmer as Mr Fancy, James Aickin as...
- Should rise above the gods, and Neptune's might. And was riot this the phrensy of the soul? But much I fear lest all my treasured wealth Fall to some...
- be supposed, for a moment, that Cornwall, seized with the Philadelphian phrensy, may resolve to separate itself from the general system of the English...
- divination, a divinator might experience dreams, temporary madness, or phrensy (frenzy); all these states of mind being considered inspiration of truth...
- p****ion; Mr. Kemble, in Leontes, worked himself up into a very fine classical phrensy; and Bannister, as Autolycus, roared as loud for pity as a s****y beggar...
- of sacred misery, exalted not into wild raving, but into the sanctified phrensy of prophecy and inspiration - in that bitterness of soul, in that indignation...
- refuge; here if anywhere, will resistance be made to the storms of political phrensy and the silent arts of corruption. Even Burr's many critics conceded that...
- her who was ever dearer to me than life, was never mine till a momentary phrensy overcame me, and induced me to commit the deed I now deplore. The letter...