phrentic

English

Alternative forms

• phrenetic

Adjective

phrentic (comparative more phrentic, superlative most phrentic)

1. Obsolete form of frenetic.
   • a. 1810, Joseph Blacket, Remains:

     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.

References

• “phrentic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.