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Middle English
Etymology
From Latin lūnāticus and Old French lunatique.
Adjective
lunatik
- suffering from madness (believed to be) due to varying lunar phases
c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Matheu 4:24, page 1v, column 1, lines 18–23; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:and hıs fame .· wente in to al ſirie / ⁊ þei bꝛouȝten to hĩ alle þat weren at male eeſe · ⁊ þat weren take wiþ dyīiſe langoꝛes ⁊ turmentis / and hem þat haddẽ fendis · ⁊ lunatik men · ⁊ men in þe paleſie .· ⁊ he heelide hem /- And his fame went into all Syria; and they brought to him all that were at mal-ease, and that were taken with diverse languors and torments, and them that had fiends, and lunatic men, and men in palsy, and he healed them.
- varying with the moon
c. 1450 (?c. 1408), Lydgate’s Reson and Sensuallyte, for the Early English Text Society by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Limited, , published 1901, page 162:Ther [women’s] sect ys no thing lunatyke, / Nor of kynde they be nat lyke / To no monys that be wane, […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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Noun
lunatik
- (countable) one subject to madness (believed to be) due to varying lunar phases
c. 1400 (c. 1378), The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman, Together with Vita de Dowel, Dobet, et Dobest, Secundum Wit et Resoun, London: for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co., , published 1869, page 6:
- (uncountable) madness (believed to be) due to varying lunar phases
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