Definition of Detraque

1. Noun. Someone who is dangerously deranged; a madman, a psychopath. ¹

2. Adjective. Mad, insane, psychopathic. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Detraque

1. a deranged person [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Detraque

dæmonism
dæmonize
dæmonized
dæmonizes
dæmonizing
dæmonolatry
dæmonomancy
dæmonomania
dæmons
décadi
décolletée
département
départements
détraqué
détraqués
e
e'en
e'er
e-
e-Business
e-Businesses
e-auction
e-auctions
e-banking
e-bike
e-bikes
e-billing
e-book

Literary usage of Detraque

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

1. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"This alone can complete her being, and without it her sphere, however she shape it, is but a hemisphere ; she is a little detraque, and her destiny is more ..."

2. The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England During Tudor by Kathleen Rebillon Lambley (1920)
"Bacon wrote in French to the Marquis of Effiat, and Hotman, on the other hand, in French to Camden : " Me sentant detraque de 1'usage de la langue latine, ..."

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