frendt

See friend. frenesyt, n. An obsolete form of frenzy. frenetic, frenetical (frē-net'ik, formerly fren'e-tik, fre-net'i-kal), a. [ Sometimes he shuts up, as in frenetick or infectious diseases. Milton , Church-Government, ii. II. n. 1. The language spoken by the people of France. French is parallel with Provençal, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Wall a chi an, and minor dialects, called together the Romance languages , being descended from the Latin as spoken by the Romans and the peoples of the various provinces whom they brought under their dominion, mingled with the Celtic and Teutonic tongues with which Latin was thus brought in contact. (See Romance.) French means 'the language of the Franks,' a Teutonic people merged with the mixed races of Gaul, who received the Frankish name (the country being thence 2. Frenzied; frantic. Thether came Is a bell, the Frenche Quene, because the King her husband was fallen into hys old frenetical des Hall , Hen. V., an. 7. ease. called France), but retained their Romanic speech, the Franks and other Teutonic tribes, and later the North men, accepting the speech of the people they conquered. It is divided chronologically into Old French and modern French , the former extending from the ninth century to the fourteenth, with the convenient inclusion (as usual- ly in this dictionary) of what is specifically called Middle French , to the sixteenth century. Old French existed in many dialects, the phrase, indeed, when unqualified or und is criminated, including the aggregate of such dia- lects. The most important were the dialect of the Île de France, which, as the "French of Paris," has become the modern literary French; and that of Normandy, the Nor- frentict, a. An obsolete form of frantic. In his throwes frenetike and madde. Chaucer, Troilus, v. 206. Also spelled phrenetic , phrenetical . frenetically (fre-net'i-kal-i), adv . [ phrenetically . man or Norman French, which, transferred to England at the Conquest and there developed (as Anglo-French), gave much to and took much from the English, and was finally displaced by the mixed English speech thus formed. (See English.) By later borrowing from French, or from the Latin on the French model, the Romanic part of the English vocabulary is now to a great extent nearly identical with that of French. As the most central and highly developed of the Romance dialects, French began, in the Latin as the general language of diplomacy, polite society, and commerce. Its importance in this respect has much diminished in the present century. It is now drawn upon by other languages chiefly for terms of fine art, dre , and and seventeenth centuries, to take place of cookery. The use of accents as a customary part of French orthography began in the seventeenth century; they now form a rigid artificial system, often a guide to pronunciation, and reflecting generally, but with numerous excep tions, previous etymological conditions of the words con- cerned. Regarded as a Romance language, French is re- mark able for its departure from the Latin type. In its vowel and consonant system (notably in its nasal vowels), its sweeping contractions, and its general destruction of final sounds or syllables, with the retention in many cases of these lost sounds in spelling, it differs markedly from other Romance tongues. And Frensch sche spak ful faire and fetysly, After the scole of Str at ford atte Bowe, For Frensch of Parys was to hire unknowe. Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T. (ed. Morris), 1. 124. a . 1. Pertaining to France, a country of west- ern Europe, or to its inhabitants. Often ab- 2. Collectively, the people of France. breviated Fr. IMG:content-1831.png:[blocks in formation] French asparagus. See asparagus. - French berry. Same as Avignon berry. See berryl. French blue. Same as artificial ultramarine (which see, under ultra marine).-French bole. See bole2, 1.- French brace, an angle-brace. French cambric, a very fine variety of cambric used for handkerchiefs and similar things.-French canvas, variety of grenadine used for ladies' dre es and very durable. Dict. of Needlework. French chalk, cotton, cowslip. See the nouns. French crown. (a) A piece of French money. It is no English treason to cut French crowns ; and, tomorrow, the king himself will be a clipper. Shak., Hen. V., iv. 1. IMG:content-1832.png:[blocks in formation] Let Euclid rest, and Arch i me des pause, And what the Swede intends, and what the French. Milton , Sonnets, xvi.