n. Madness, especially as caused by inflammation of the brain; meningitis.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. Inflammation of the brain, or of the meninges of the brain, attended with acute fever and delirium; -- called also cephalitis.
n. See Frenzy.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. In medicine, an inflammation of the brain or its meninges, attended with acute fever and delirium.
n. Delirium; frenzy.
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n. inflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus; symptoms include headache and neck pain and drowsiness and nausea and fever (`phrenitis' is no longer in scientific use)
Word Usage
"And many were attacked with impairment or loss of speech; at first, those in the commencement of phthisis, but also persons in ardent fever and in phrenitis."