phrensy

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PHREN'SY, noun s as z. [supra.] Madness; delirium, or that partial madness which manifests itself in wild and erratic sallies of the imagination. It is written also frenzy. Demoniac phrensy; moping melancholy.
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