lunatic
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lunatic orig. affected with the kind of insanity that was supposed to depend on changes of the moon XIII; sb. XIV. — (O)F.
lunatique — L.
lūnāticus, f.
lūna moon; see prec.
-ATIC.
Hence
lunacy XVI.
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