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Definition of Maniacs
1. maniac [n] - See also: maniac
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maniacs
Literary usage of Maniacs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography: From the Earliest Times to 1900 by George Smith, Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1897)
"... classification is founded upon what he called the ' Natural History of Insanity.'
Instead of separating the insane into groups of maniacs, ..."
2. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1830)
"Of 366 males, 40 per cent . were maniacs, 38 per cent. monomaniacs, and 22
demented ; while of 258 females, 31 per cent . were maniacs, ..."
3. The Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity by John Hutton Balfour Browne (1875)
"The Sane Consciousness of maniacs.—It is a curious fact that maniacs, even in
their most violent moments, seem to be somehow conscious of the strange ..."
4. The book of were-wolves: Being an Account of a Terrible Superstition by Sabine Baring-Gould (1865)
"... with which the Passion is developed—Cannibalism ; in pregnant Women; in
maniacs—Hallucination; How Produced—Salves—The Story of Lucius—Self-deception. ..."
5. Crabb's English Synonyms by George Crabb (1917)
"Lunatics have their lucid intervals, and maniacs their intervals of repose.
Derangement may sometí men be applied to the temporary confusion of a disturbed ..."
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