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maniacal, a.|məˈnaɪəkəl|
[f. maniac + -al1.]
1. Affected with mania. Also absol.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. 704 When maniacal persons..speak in languages which they had never learnt. 1800Med. Jrnl. IV. 106 Another patient..became decidedly and violently maniacal. 1865W. H. O. Sankey Mental Dis. iii. (1866) 71 Maniacal patients are not necessarily irascible... The maniacal will answer, but speedily ramble again from the point.
2. Of, belonging to or of the nature of mania; characteristic of a maniac.
1701Grew Cosm. Sacra iii. i. 89 Epilepsys, and Maniacal Lunacies, do usually conform..to the Age of the Moon. 1748Hartley Observ. Man ii. iv. §3. 384 Maniacal and other Disorders. 1842De Quincey Cicero Wks. VI. 196 The extravagant, almost maniacal, assertion. 1866Cornh. Mag. Aug. 227 In maniacal frenzy. 1899Crockett Kit Kennedy 405 With a quick access of maniacal strength, the prisoner cast his guards..from him.
Hence maˈniacally adv.
1846E. B. Barrett 10 July in Lett. R. Browning & E. B. B. (1899) II. 323 Poor Haydon! Think what an agony life was to him..—the man seeing maniacally in all men the assassins of his fame! 1860W. Collins Wom. White xiii. 77 An expression of maniacally intense hatred and fear. 1894Sala Things Seen II. 79 He usually came home..either boisterously, lyrically, pugilistically, or maniacally drunk. |
