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Definition of Pyromaniacs
1. pyromaniac [n] - See also: pyromaniac
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyromaniacs
Literary usage of Pyromaniacs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Psychological Medicine: Giving the Definition, Etymology and by Daniel Hack Tuke (1892)
"He also excludes cases of real insanity, stating that by real pyromaniacs he
means persons who set fire to things, not on account of ..."
2. Practical Police Work: What to Do and how to Do it by James Joseph Skehan, James P. Conway (1919)
"pyromaniacs pyromaniacs usually stay in the • neighborhood of the fire which they
started to enjoy the excitement. They can be found in doorways in the ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1913)
"Here probably belong certain of the old monomaniacs, as kleptomaniacs, pyromaniacs
and others, though we should remember that these things are symptoms and ..."
4. Journal of the American Medical Association by American Medical Association (1890)
"Magnan classes these cases with the kleptomaniacs, pyromaniacs, and the suicidal
and homicidal insane. The relation of imperative conceptions to the ..."
5. Criminology by Raffaele Garofalo (1914)
"First of all, we may set apart kleptomaniacs and pyromaniacs as well as epileptic
thieves and incendiaries: these should be committed to an asylum for the ..."
6. Criminology by Raffaele Garofalo (1914)
"First of all, we may set apart kleptomaniacs and pyromaniacs as well as epileptic
thieves and incendiaries: these should be committed to an asylum for the ..."
7. Abnormal Man: Being Essays on Education and Crime and Related Subjects, with by Arthur MacDonald (1893)
"Aside from the kleptomaniacs, pyromaniacs, the epileptic thieves and incendiaries,
who should be placed in asylums for insane criminals, there are the ..."
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