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noun

Lunatic n. A person affected by lunacy; an insane person, esp. one who has lucid intervals; a madman; a person of unsound mind. "The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact."

adjective

Lunatic adj.

Affected by lunacy; insane; mad; crazy; demented. "Lord, have mercy on my son; for he is lunatic."

Of or pertaining to, or suitable for, an insane person; evincing lunacy; as, lunatic gibberish; a lunatic asylum.

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Etymology of 'Lunatic'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lunatic" Quotes from Famous Books

... you for a silly lunatic if you listen to the tales of country people, Ringfield! They may have said so, they may have said all kinds of stuff—I never spoke of it to a living soul myself, even in my cups; I'll swear I left it alone ...

— Ringfield - A Novel • Susie Frances Harrison

... beyond doubt by those who had sufficient leisure and benevolence to find out other people's business for the gratification of the general public. It was not so clear who was to be the new-comer. Some said a retired tradesman; others, a foreign princess; others, the proprietor of a private lunatic asylum. These and other rumours were afloat, but none of them came to ...

— Working in the Shade - Lowly Sowing brings Glorious Reaping • Theodore P Wilson

... told you about Measles' listing for spite, you will easily understand that the fact of his calling any one a lunatic did not prove a want of common reason in the person spoken about; but what he meant was, that the people coming up were half-mad for travelling when the sun was so high, and ...

— Begumbagh - A Tale of the Indian Mutiny • George Manville Fenn

... valley caldrons thicker than ever. But the spell was broken. In a moment more Old Phelps was shouting, "The sun!" and before we could gain our feet there was a patch of sky overhead as big as a farm. "See! quick!" The old man was dancing like a lunatic. There was a rift in the vapor at our feet, down, down, three thousand feet into the forest abyss, and lo! lifting out of it yonder the tawny side of Dix,—the vision of a second, snatched away in the rolling fog. The play had just begun. Before we could turn, there was ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... an alarmed whisper. "Why! I never heard of such brazen impertinence in my life. He must be insane. He is a lunatic, ...

— Cap'n Warren's Wards • Joseph C. Lincoln

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