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Definition of Pyromaniacal
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyromaniacal
Literary usage of Pyromaniacal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Clinical Lectures on Mental Diseases by Thomas Smith Clouston (1904)
"... pyromaniacal, destructive, or animal impulses. Some of the complications of
mental disease with the effects of drunkenness are often most puzzling both ..."
2. Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal (1877)
"Given a case of violent and unmanageable mania with marked homicidal, suicidal,
pyromaniacal or other morbid impulses requiring restraint and watchfulness ..."
3. Transactions of the International Medical Congress of Philadelphia. 1876 by John Ashhurst (1877)
"... such for instance as suicide in the suicidal form of madness, homicide in the
homicidal, burning in the pyromaniacal, stealing in the kleptomania cal, ..."
4. Problems of Life and Mind by George Henry Lewes (1874)
"... and pyromaniacal Instincts, which are temporary if their statical conditions
are temporary. Or, since this illustration may be disputed, consider the ..."
5. Christ Victorious Over All by Joseph S. Johnston (1921)
"... writers of natural ability, and years of literary and theological training,
who made famous protest against pyromaniacal exaggerations of hell-fire. ..."
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