frank tenement (frangkten"ement)

In Eng. law: ( a ) The po e ion of the soil by a freeman. Hence - ( b ) An estate of freehold. fransicalt, a. [ A certain fransical maladie they call Love. Sir P. Sidney, Wanstead Play, p. 619. frater frapet, v. t. [ME. frapen, With myn ax I schal hem frape, Ther schal no Sarezyn escape. Richard Coer de Lion , 1. 2513. frapet, n. [ME. frape , frappe , a crowd; ef. E. dial. fraps , noise, perhaps fraper , frapper , F. frapper , strike: see frape , v.] A A C company; a crowd; a multitude; a rabble; a mob. My faire suster Polyxene, Ca andre, Eleyne, or any of the frape . Chaucer , Troilus, iii. 410. He... ffyghttez with alle the ffrappe a furlange of waye, ffelled fele appone felde with his faire wapene. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2091. tick, frentick, frantik, also phrantick, phrentick; the brain: see phrenitis. Cf. franzy = frenzy, and frenetic phrenetic.] I. a. 1. Mad; raving; wild; distracted: as, frantic with fear or grief. "Wel artow wyse," quod she to witte, "any wysdomes to telle IMG:content-1804.png:[blocks in formation] Some few hours more Spent here would turn me apish, if not frantic. Ford , Lover's Melancholy, iv. 2. 2. Freely; without hindrance or restraint; will- 2. Characterized by violence and mental disoringly. [Now rare.] When they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Luke vii. 42. der; springing from madne or distraction. Blood to blood, self against self: O, preposterous And frantic outrage! Shak ., Rích. III., ii. 4. O, were it but my life, About this time a frantick Opinion was held by one I'd throw it down for your deliverance Peter Bourchet, a Gentleman of the Middle Temple, That As frankly as a pin. Shak., M. for M., iii. 1. it was lawful to kill them that opposed the Truth of the Her father and myself (lawful espials) Gospel. Baker , Chronicles, p. 349. Will so bestow ourselves that, seeing, unseen, We may of their encounter frankly judge. Shak., Hamlet, iii. 1. =Syn. See frank2, a.