Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties
Division (I) Formation of Ideas
Section V. Results of Reasoning
Faculties

504. Madman.

   NOUN:MADMAN, lunatic, maniac, bedlamite, candidate for Bedlam, raver, phrenetic, madcap; energumen [eccl. antiq.]; automaniac, monomaniac, dipsomaniac, kleptomaniac, paranoiac; hypochondriac (low spirits) [See Dejection]; crank [colloq.], Tom o’ Bedlam; nut [slang].
  DREAMER [See Imagination]; rhapsodist, seer, highflyer or highflier [obs.], enthusiast, fanatic, fanatico [It.], exalté [F.], Don Quixote, Ophelia, Madge Wildfire.
  IDIOT [See Fool].
   QUOTATIONS:

1. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact.—Midsummer’s Night’s Dream
2. There is a pleasure, sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know.—Dryden
3. O, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown!—Hamlet
4. Who knows of madness whether it is divine or whether it be of the pit.—Dunsany