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n. - An archaic term for a lunatic.

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  • “It is a bedlamite world”: Menzies, Dark and Hurrying Days, p.
  • (I told you this thing was a dilly of a stemwinder of a bedlamite bloviation.)
  • Nearly ten years on I find myself lending a hand to get that crazed, giggling bedlamite back in the saddle.
  • The bedlamite Bard would tell all he knew of Gabriel's plans in the world, and who knew what Gabriel's Bright Court cousins might say to that?
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