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Definition of Lunatic

1. Noun. An insane person.

2. Adjective. Insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon.

3. Noun. A reckless impetuous irresponsible person.

Definition of Lunatic

1. a. Affected by lunacy; insane; mad.

2. n. A person affected by lunacy; an insane person, esp. one who has lucid intervals; a madman; a person of unsound mind.

Definition of Lunatic

1. Noun. An insane person. ¹

2. Adjective. crazed, mad, insane, demented ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lunatic

1. an insane person [n -S]

Medical Definition of Lunatic

1. An obsolete term for a mentally ill person. Origin: see lunacy (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lunatic

lunarscapes lunary lunas lunate lunate bone lunate cerebral sulcus lunate dislocation lunate fissure lunate sigma lunate sigmas

lunate sulcus lunate surface of acetabulum lunated lunately lunates lunatic (current term) lunatic asylum lunatic asylums lunatic fringe lunatics

lunation lunations lunatomalacia lunch lunch-time lunch-times lunch box lunch bucket lunch buckets lunch kettle

Literary usage of Lunatic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Chancery of the State by New York (State). Court of Chancery, Oliver Lorenzo Barbour (1849)
"A bill filed by the committee of a lunatic, in their own names, ... And a decree in favor of the complainants would not be a decree in favor of the lunatic. ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Steuart Macnaghten, Alexander Gordon, Charles Christopher Pepys Cottenham, Thomas Wilde Truro (1850)
"60. for the purpose of obtaining a reconveyance of mortgaged premises, to the case of a lunatic mortgagee who was a trustee, ..."

3. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond (1822)
"90. will not be ordered, where the lunatic is abroad, under a judicial ... A lunatic abroad, under a judicial proceeding in nature of a commission of 316. ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1859)
"Of the State lunatic Asylum of South Carolina.'for 1857. 13. Of the Mississippi State lunatic Asylum, for 1857. 15. Of the State lunatic Hospital of Texas, ..."

5. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1910)
"On three lunatic asylums of state; all asylums are about full. ... Rept. of comrs. apptd. to supervise improvements on lunatic asylums of Ky. 23 pp. (Docs. ..."

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