Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mentally ill person.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A madman. See
bedlam , n., 4.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An inhabitant of a madhouse; a madman.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
lunatic .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an archaic term for a lunatic
Etymologies
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Examples
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Left to herself, Saxon worked with frantic haste, assuming the calm she did not possess, but which she must impart to the screaming bedlamite upon the floor.
CHAPTER XIX 2010
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(I told you this thing was a dilly of a stemwinder of a bedlamite bloviation.)
Patrick Sauer: What Is Resposnsible for Rihanna's Beating? Feminism! 2009
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Nearly ten years on I find myself lending a hand to get that crazed, giggling bedlamite back in the saddle.
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Nearly ten years on I find myself lending a hand to get that crazed, giggling bedlamite back in the saddle.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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“It is a bedlamite world”: Menzies, Dark and Hurrying Days, p.
Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008
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“It is a bedlamite world,” he wrote, “and the hardest thing in it is to discuss and decide as we do in War Cabinet policies which, even if successful, must bring the angel of death into many homes.”
Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008
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Up the steep, narrow lane we ran with that bedlamite crowd at our heels.
Greenmantle 2005
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The bedlamite Bard would tell all he knew of Gabriel's plans in the world, and who knew what Gabriel's Bright Court cousins might say to that?
Music to My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005
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The bedlamite Bard would tell all he knew of Gabriel's plans in the world, and who knew what Gabriel's Bright Court cousins might say to that?
Music To My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005
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Greenmantle will avenge the murder of his ministers, and make that bedlamite woman sorry she was born.
Greenmantle 2005
yarb commented on the word bedlamite
I pretended to have the colic. A lad in the colic cannot help whining and groaning; but I went further, and cried out lustily, as loud as my lungs would let me. This roused my gentle friends, and brought them about me to know what the deuce was the matter. I informed them that I had a swinging fit of the gripes, and to humour the idea, gnashed my teeth, made all manner of wry faces till I looked like a bedlamite, and twisted my limbs as if I had been going to be delivered of a heathen oracle.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 1 ch. 10
September 12, 2008