a. and adv. Like a madman.
A. adj. Mad-looking.
1618. M. Baret, Horsemanship, I. 58. That will … make him [the horse] more bedlam-like.
B. adv. After the manner of a madman.
1576. Newton, trans. Lemnie’s Complex. (1633), 68. Many being angred … will Bedlam-like run upon their enemies with minds enraged. Ibid. (1581), Seneca’s Thebais, 41. Agaue (bedlemlike) raunged up and down the woode With systers hers.
