Middle English

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Etymology

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From Latin lūnāticus and Old French lunatique.

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lunatik

  1. 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.)‎[1], 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.[2]
  2. 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, []
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  • English: lunatic

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Noun

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lunatik

  1. (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:
      Þanne loked vp a lunatik · a lene þing with-alle, []
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  2. (uncountable) madness (believed to be) due to varying lunar phases

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