a. rare. [f. LUNATIC + -AL.] = LUNATIC a.
1599. Broughton’s Lett., viii. 28. The Lunaticall conceits … are thine owne.
1600. O. E., Repl. Libel, I. ii. 43. Let this lunaticall or extaticall frier … forbeare to bragge.
1866. Howells, Venet. Life, 100. He was of a most lunatical deportment.
1892. Nat. Observer, 17 Dec., 101/2. The lunatical ignorance of politicians.
Hence Lunatically adv.
1873. W. Cory, Lett. & Jrnls. (1897), 311. The muezzin sang the prayers dismally, deathfully, lunatically.
