phrenetic

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Indeed, this word phrenetic or maniac is no reproach; it is identical with mantic --prophetic.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)

It was a phrenetic indictment, but under the paltry rhetoric of the man there was genuine indignation and pain.

From The Inheritors by Conrad, Joseph

Yet here I sit, as yet unimmolated on the altar of phrenetic vengeance.

From Hard Cash by Reade, Charles

This was very new; it was also very strange what a fascination he found in his phrenetic exercises.

From Little Novels of Italy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

And now, as might be expected, Jack's disorder, which had hitherto been comparatively of the calm and melancholy kind, broke out into the most violent and phrenetic exhibitions.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various