phrentic

English

Alternative forms

• phrenetic

Adjective

phrentic (comparative more phrentic, superlative most phrentic)

1. Obsolete form of frenetic.
   • (Can we date this quote by Joseph Blacket and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Fantastic images, a various train,
     Burst from the glowing prison of the brain;
     And while the raptur'd Bard records their birth,
     His phrentic eye glances from heaven to earth.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “phrentic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)