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 Frankum’s Night.Fraserian. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Frantic.
 
Brain-struck (Greek, phrn, the heart as the seat of reason), madness being a disorder of the understanding.   1
       
“Cebel’s frantic rites have made them mad.”
       
Spenser.
 


 Frankum’s Night.Fraserian. 

 
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