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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

... come now;" murmured the woman, soothingly, for she began to fear that she was in the presence, and in the power, of a lunatic. ...

— The Lost Lady of Lone • E.D.E.N. Southworth

... live.... Curiosity burned me up.... You do not understand it, but I swear by God, I could no longer control myself. Something strange was going on in me. I could not hold myself in. I told my husband that I was ill and came here.... And here I have been walking about dizzily, like a lunatic.... And now I have become a low, filthy woman ...

— The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories • Anton Tchekoff

... may become at times overwhelming, and you have our universal trouble with sinful tendency, as it were magnified for examination. It is clear that the mania which defines his position must be the primary if not the cardinal business in the life of a lunatic, but his problem with that is different not in kind but merely in degree from the problem of lusts, vanities, and weaknesses in what we call normal lives. It is an unconquered tract, a great rebel province ...

— God The Invisible King • Herbert George Wells

... essential condition of bad breeding also; and bad breeding is indispensable to the weeding out of the human race. When the conception of heredity took hold of the scientific imagination in the middle of last century, its devotees announced that it was a crime to marry the lunatic to the lunatic or the consumptive to the consumptive. But pray are we to try to correct our diseased stocks by infecting our healthy stocks with them? Clearly the attraction which disease has for diseased people is beneficial to the race. If two really unhealthy people get married, ...

— Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion • George Bernard Shaw

... then allowances are made for them and they may be as odd as they please. But if any one happens to be clever when he is at Oxford, he will have to watch himself closely or he will be called either a genius or a lunatic, and the one is almost as fatal ...

— Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate • Charles Turley

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