Definition of "lunatics" []

• Plural form of lunatic. (noun)

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• "His composure and intelligence in dealilng with the lunatics is admirable, whether it's Joe Lieberman in the Senate or the silly people at his town hall meetings."
• "All these and more I had seen, but all had possessed one common peculiarity which betrayed them as belonging to that large and unhappy class we term lunatics, and their mental disorder was revealed in a clear, glittering glance, cold and keen as a steel blade."
• "'Pemoniacks mentioned in the gofpels, were TfJoflTefled and aAuated fey the latter: but others, with whom an opinion being popu -. iar, is a futficient reafon of its abfurdity, think, the Demonjacks were only what we call lunatics, or madmen, and by confe -, quencc. dcny the agency of fuperior powers."