adv. [f. FRANTIC a. + -LY2.] = FRANTICALLY.

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1549.  Bale, Leland’s N. Year’s Gift, D i b. But what wyse men do thynke of them that so frantycklye on their ale benches do prattle, it is easy to coniecture.

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1596.  Edward III., III. v.

                        He, lion-like,
Entangled in the net of their assaults,
Franticly rends, and bites the woven toil.

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1621.  G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., IX. (1626), 190.

        Hopelesse, her hated mansion she eschues:
And frantickly, her brothers flight persues.

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1794.  Sullivan, View Nat., I. 8. The one is gloomy and ferociously distracted; the other is merrily, but perhaps not less franticly mad.

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1828.  Scott, F. M. Perth, xix. She cried thus franticly, to ears which she was taught to believe were stopped by death.

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1883.  G. H. Boughton, Artist Strolls in Holland, in Harper’s Mag., LXVI. April, 687/2. Everything here was as brilliantly polished and as franticly scrubbed as if it were a show place in Broek.

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