Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PHREN'SY
PHRE-NO-MAG'NET-ISMPHRON'TIS-TER-Y
PHREN'SY, n. [s as z. supra.]
Madness; delirium, or that partial madness which manifests itself in wild and erratic sallies of the imagination. It is written also frenzy. Demoniac phrensy; moping melancholy. – Milton.
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