bedlamite

plural bedlamites

1. obsoleteA lunatic.

   [S]he cursed him with the bitterest imprecations, and raved like a Bedlamite at the door, which she attempted to burst open.

   1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC

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   Upon coming to the edge of the outer surf, the man at the stern of our boat, steering with a long oar, began to stamp his feet and roar like a bedlamite […] .

   1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 91

   Cripps, bewildered at his friend's Bedlamite departure, stood staring helplessly after him with the ruined picture of Isaiah in his hand.

   1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 86

   Bradly stood listening to the old woman's squalling, resenting its note of febrile violence; its bedlamite insolence of old age.

   1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 195