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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lunatic \Lu"na*tic\, adjective [F. lunatique, L. lunaticus, fr. luna the moon. See {Lunar}.]
1. Affected by lunacy; insane; mad; crazy; demented.
Lord, have mercy on my son; for he is lunatic. --Wyclif (Matt. xvii. 15).
2. Of or pertaining to, or suitable for, an insane person; evincing lunacy; as, lunatic gibberish; a lunatic asylum.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lunatic \Lu"na*tic\, noun A person affected by lunacy; an insane person, esp. one who has lucid intervals; a madman; a person of unsound mind.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
lunatic
adjective: insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon [syn: {moonstruck}]
noun
1: an insane person [syn: {madman}, {maniac}]
2: a reckless impetuous irresponsible person [syn: {daredevil}, {madcap}, {hothead}, {swashbuckler}, {harum-scarum}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
110 Moby Thesaurus words for "lunatic": abnormal, absurd, aliene, ass, balmy, batty, bedlamite, bereft of reason, borderline case, born fool, brainsick, buffoon, clown, crackbrain, crackbrained, cracked, crackpot, crank, crazed, crazy, cuckoo, daft, deluded, dement, demented, demoniac, deprived of reason, deranged, ding-a-ling, disoriented, distraught, doodle, egregious ass, energumen, fanatic, fantastic, figure of fun, flake, flighty, fool, fou, hallucinated, harebrain, idiot, ignoramus, insane, irrational, jackass, kook, loco, loon, loony, mad, maddened, madman, maniac, manic, mazed, mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, meshuggenah, milksop, moon-struck, mooncalf, neuropath, neurotic, non compos, non compos mentis, noncompos, not all there, not right, nut, odd, of unsound mind, off, paranoid, perfect fool, phrenetic, potty, preposterous, psycho, psychoneurotic, queer, raver, raving lunatic, reasonless, schmuck, screwball, senseless, sick, softhead, sop, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, stupid ass, tetched, tomfool, touched, unbalanced, unhinged, unsane, unsettled, unsound, wacky, wandering, weirdo, witless, zany
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Lunatic probably the same as epileptic, the symptoms of which disease were supposed to be more aggravated as the moon increased. In Matt. 4:24 "lunatics" are distinguished from demoniacs. In 17:15 the name "lunatic" is applied to one who is declared to have been possessed. (See {DAEMONIAC}.)
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