bedlamite

== English == === Etymology === From bedlam +‎ -ite, in reference to the Hospital of Saint Mary of Bethlehem, a former London institution for the insane. === Noun === bedlamite (plural bedlamites) (obsolete) A lunatic. 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 91: Upon coming to the edge of the outer surf, the man at the stern of our boat, steering with a long oar, began to stamp his feet and roar like a bedlamite […] .