the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. Violent and irrational excitement; delirium. See frenzy.
v. To render frantic.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Obsolete forms of frenzy.
Word Usage
"There was, I believe, a kind of phrensy in my manner, which threw her into a panic, like that of Semele perhaps, when the Thunderer, in all his majesty, surrounded with ten thousand celestial burning-glasses, was about to scorch her into a cinder."