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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[OE.

frentik

frenetik

, F.

frentique

, L.

phreneticus

, from Gr. [GREEK]. See

, and cf.

Mad; raving; furious; violent; wild and disorderly; distracted.

Die,

frantic

wretch, for this accursed deed!

Shakespeare

–

Fran′tic-ness

Noun.

Johnson.

Adj.

[L. phreneticus; Gr. from delirium or raving, from mind, the radical sense of which is to rush, to drive forward.]

Mad; raving; furious; outrageous; wild and disorderly; distracted; as a frantic person; frantic with fear or grief.

Characterized by violence, fury and disorder; noisy; mad; wild; irregular; as the frantic rites of Bacchus.