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bedlamite

[ bed-luh-mahyt ]

noun

  1. an insane person; lunatic.


bedlamite

/ ˈɛəˌɪ /

noun

  1. archaic.
    a lunatic; insane person
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of bedlamite1

First recorded in 1615–25; bedlam + -ite 1
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Across the street, char-marks marred the loading dock where local bedlamites built fires at night.

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They could roll in the mud with crystal-wielding bedlamites in the vain hope of seeking "rebirth".

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Should the morally insane, by wise and gentle care, be won back to health, as the wretched bedlamites have been, will not the angels themselves give thanks?

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Christianity he pronounced the most irrational of all religions; church history a conglomeration of immorality, lies, hypocrisy, and fanaticism; prophets and apostles, bedlamites; and even Christ by no means a perfect pattern and teacher.

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What!" cried the forester, "thou cursed, blasphemous wretch, is it thus that, with thy old bedlamite pranks, thou venturest to come into the society of honest Christians?

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