madness

[Eng. mad, a.; -ne .] 1. The quality or state of being mad or disordered pound, budding from the parent. They exist on in mind; a state of disordered or deranged mind or intellect; lunacy. "Madne laughing in his ireful mood." Dryden: Palamon and Arcite, ii. 582. 2. Extremity of folly; headstrong or uncontrol lable pa ion; ungovernable fury or rage. "But in him it was not easy to distinguish the madne brandy."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. v. 3. Foolish actions or conduct. "And I gave my heart to know wisdom and to know madne and and folly." - Ecclesiastes i. 17. Madne and frenzy are used in the physical and moral sense; rage and fury alone in the moral sense: in the first case, madne is a confirmed derangement in the organ of thought; frenzy is only a temporary derangement from the violence of fever. Rage refers more immediately to the agitation that exists within; fury refers to that which shows itself outwardly: a person contains or stifles his rage ; but his fury breaks out into some external mark of violence. ( Crabb : Eng . Synon .) Raving madne : Pathol .: A popular name for mania (q. v.).