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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Manie, n. [e.m.E. and ME. (Chaucer) manie, manye, F. manie.] Acute mental derangement, raving lunacy, mania. —1597 James VI Dæmonol. 30.
The symptomes [of melancholy] … if they come to the highest degree therof, [are] mere folie and manie
Ib. 70.
Trubled with a natural phrensie or manie

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