frenziedly 
frenziedly (f ren'zid-li ), <nlr. As one frenzied ; 
distractedly. 
frenzy (fren'zi), . and a. [Early mod. E. also 
fr<'n:ie, frcn.ii/, i>liri'nn>/, i>ltrcn:i/, Jrnii::;/, etc., \ 
ME. frnivi, fr<m*ii, friiiwy, frnii'si/, freneme, < 
OF fmi<'*ii'.'fr<-iiiiii'<', V. fr<'ix''*ie = 
I'rn'iezi = Sp. /miw = Pg.frenesi = 
< L. phrenesis, < Gr. ^"WW, a later equiv. ot 
dpewTtf, inflammation of the brain: see frantic 
Mid frenetic.-] I. n. ; pi. frcmies (-ziz). Vio- 
lent agitation of the mind approaching to tem- 
porary derangement of the mental faculties; 
distraction; delirium; madness. 
He felle in a/roiwj/c for ferscnessf of herte, 
He feghttis ami fellis (lowne that hyme be- ore stand's ! 
Morte Arthurs (t. E. I. 8.J, 1. xn. 
Every passion is a *hort/ 
A kind of /renzt/ seized the people of Adel ; they ran 
tumultuously to arms, and, with shrieks and adjurations, 
demanded to be led immediately against the Abyssimans. 
Bruce, Source of the Nile, 11. to. 
= Syn. Mania, Madness, etc. (see insanity); rage, fury, 
raving. 
Il.t a. Mad; delirious. 
All these sharpers have hut a. frenzy man's sleep. 
S. Ward, Sermons, p. 100. 
frenzy (fren'zi), . t. ; pret. and pp. frenzied, 
W*. frenzy ing. l< frenzy, .] To render fran- 
tic ; drive to distraction. 
The bright Titan frenzied, with new woes. 
Keats, Hyperion, i. 
The people, frenzied by centuries of oppression, prac- 
tised the most revolting cruelties, saddening the hour of 
their triumph by crimes that disgraced the noble cause 
for which they struggled. Buckle, Civilization, I. vii. 
freq An abbreviation ot frequentative. 
frequence! (fre'kwens), . [= F. frequence = 
Sn.frecuencia = Pg. frequencia = It. frequema, 
frequency. < I,, freqventia, a throng, a crowd, < 
frequen(t-)s, crowded, also frequent: see fre- 
quent.'] If. A crowd; a throng; a concourse; 
an assembly. 
I as I undertook, and with the vote 
Consenting in taUfrtqufnu was impower d, 
Have found him, view'd him, tasted him. 
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The waste enormous marsh, 
Where from the frequent bridge . . . 
The trenched waters run from sky to sky. 
Tennys'in, ode to Memory. 
3. Doing or accustomed to do a thing often ; 
practising or given to repetition ; repetitious ; 
iterative: as, to be frequent in one's remon- 
strances. 
You cannot be 
Too frequent where you are so much desir'd. 
Fletcher, Spanish Curate, i. 1. 
Suffering such a crew of riotous gallants, 
Not of the best repute, to be so frequent _ 
Both in your house and presence ; this, tis rumour d, 
Little agrees with the curiousness of honour. 
ilassinger, Parliament of Love, 1. 4. 
Make no more Allegories in Scripture than needs must, 
the Fathers were too frequent in them. 
Selden, Table-lalk, p. XL 
4f. Currently reported; often heard. 
'T\s frequent in the city he hath subdued 
The Catti and the Daci. 
ilassinger, Roman Actor, i. 1. 
frequent (f re-kwent' ), v . t. [< OF. frequenter, 
F. frequenter = Sp. frecuentar = Pg. frequentar 
= It. frequentare, < L. frequentare, fill, crowd, 
visit often, do or use often, etc., < frequen(t-)s, 
frequent, crowded: see frequent, a.] If. To 
crowd; fill. 
With tears 
Watering the ground, and with our sighs the air 
Frequenting. Milton, P. L., x. 1091. 
2. To visit often; resort to habitually: as, to 
frequent the theater. 
I lay at the signe of the three Kings, which is the . . . 
most frequented of al the Innes. Coryat, Crudities, I. 70. 
The unknowen Countries of Ginny and Binne, this six 
and twentie yeeres, have beene frequented with a few 
English ships only 
fresh 
freret A- Middle English form of friar. 
frescadet (fres-kad'), . [< OF.frcscades, fres- 
qndes, pi., "refreshments, or things refresh- 
ing, as (m summer-time) light garments, cool 
air, cold places, bowers or shades, overspread 
with green boughs" (Cotgrave), < It. 'frescata, 
< fresco, OF. frais, fres, fresh, cool: see fresh.] 
A cool walk; a shady place. Maunder. 
fresco (fres'ko), n.; pi. frescos or frescoes (-koz). 
[< It fresco, fresh, cool,/rcsco, n. , coolness, tri 
air, cool, fresco, < OHG. /me, fresh: see fres/;.] 
If. Coolness; a cool, refreshing state ot tlie 
air; shade. See alfresco. 
Wee mett many of the nobility both on horseback and in 
their coaches to take the fresco from the sea. 
Ecelyn, Diary, Jan. 31, 1645. 
Hellish sprites 
Love more the/raco of the nights. 
1'fiur, Hans Carvel. 
2 A method of painting on walls covered 
with a ground or coat of plaster or mortar, with 
which the colors become permanently incorpo- 
rated if properly chosen and applied; also, a 
picture or design so painted. True fresco (Italian 
luon fresco) is painting in colors mixed with water or hy- 
drate of lime upon a wet surface of mortar made of lime 
and pure quartz-sand. In this method earth pigments are 
. _ 3 i !! MUM+aMa anil HIM N V li mil -l';i tllLT- 
' Milton, P. R., ii. 130. 
2. Same as frequency. 
The ordinary practise of idolatry, and frequence ot 
oati le8 . Bp. Hall, Quo Vadis? s 20. 
frequency (f re 'k wen -si), n. [Formerly also 
frequencie: see frequence.] If. A crowd; a 
throng. 
London, . . . both for frequencie of people and multi- 
tude of houses, doth thrise exceed it [Mantua]. 
Coryat, Crudities, I. 145. 
Thou cam'st erewhile into this senate. Who 
Of such a frequency, so many friends 
And kindred thou hast here, saluted thee? 
B. Jonson, Catiline, iv. 2. 
2. The quality of being frequent ; often occur- 
rence ; the happening often in the ordinary 
course of things. 
The people with great frequencie brought gifts unto 
Palatium, which they offered unto the Goddesse, and sol- 
emnized a lectisternium. Holland, tr. of Livy, p. 719. 
Concerning frequency in prayer it is an act of zeal ... 
easy and useful. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 688. 
3. The ratioof the number of times that an event 
occurs in the ordinary course of events to the 
number of occasions on which it might occur; 
with a few recent writers on physics, the num- 
ber of regularly recurring events of any given 
kind in a given time. 
The frequency of crimes has washed them white. 
Cowper, Task, iii. 71. 
frequent (fre'kwent), a. [< OF. frequent, F. 
frequent = Sp.frecuente = Pg. It. frequente, < 
L. frequen(t-)s, crowded, crammed, frequent, 
repeated, etc., ppr. in form, allied to farcire, 
cram: see/orcei,.] i+. Crowded; thronged; 
full. 
Tis Casar's will to have a. frequent senate ; 
And therefore must your edict lay deep mulct 
On such as shall be absent. B. Jonson, Sejanus, v. 3. 
Moving from the strand, apart they sate, 
And full and frequent form'd a dire debate. 
Pope, Odyssey, xvn. 
One hundred and thirty-nine Lords were present, and 
made a noble sight on their benches frequent and full ! 
Walpote, Letters, II. 38. 
2. Often appearing, seen, or done ; often re- 
peated or recurring ; coming or happening in 
close succession or at short intervals. 
There is nothing more frequent among us than a sort of 
poems intitlecl Pindaric Odes. Congreve, Pindaric Ode. 
Fivqvent hearses shall besiege your gates. 
Pope, Elegy on an Unfortunate Lady, I. 38. 
The sure sign of the general decline of an art is the 
frfiiiii-nt mrunrnce, not of deformity, but of misplaced 
beauty. Macaulay, Machiavelli. 
It is to be wondered, that these Operas are so frequented. 
There are great numbers of the Nobility that come daily 
to them. Lister, Journey to Paris, p. 171. 
frequentable (fre-kwen'ta-bl), a. [= F. fre- 
quentable; as frequent + -able.] Accessible; 
easy of approach. 
While youth lasted in him, the exercises of that age, and 
his humour, not yet fully discovered, made him somewhat 
the more frequentable and less dangerous. Sir P. kidney. 
Have made their bookstore most frequentable for facil- 
ity of purchase. The New Mirror, III. (1843). 
frequentage (fre-kwen'taj), n. [< frequent + 
-age.] The practice of frequenting: as, "re- 
mote from frequentage," Southey. [Bare.] 
frequentation (fre-kwen-ta'shon), n. [=F. fre- 
quentation = Sp.frecuentacion = Pg. frequenta- 
c.ao = It. frequentazione, < L. frequentatio(n-), 
frequency, frequent use, < frequentare, fre- 
quent : see frequent, v.~] The practice of fre- 
quenting ; the habit of visiting often. 
The loveliest cove upon the North New England coast, 
and nearly the loneliest, a few miles ahead of the wave of 
indiscriminate frequentation already rolling steadily on 
towards the British provinces. 
//. W. Preston, Year in Eden, xv. 
frequentative (fre-kwen'ta-tiv), a. and n. [= 
F.frequentatif= Sp. frecuentativo = Pg. It.Jre- 
quentativo, < LL. frequentativus, frequentative, 
< L. frequentare, do or use often: see frequent, 
v] I a. In gram., serving to express the repe- 
tition of an action: as, dictito is a, frequentative 
verb. 
II. n. A verb which denotes the frequent oc- 
currence or repetition of an action, as dictito 
(Latin) from dicto, vdvaditi (Sanskrit) from va- 
dati, waggle from wag. 
Abbreviated freq. 
frequenter (fre-kwen'ter), n. One who fre- 
quents ; one who often or habitually visits or 
resorts to a place. 
A grant frequenter of the church, 
Where bishop-like he finds a perch. 
Cowper, tr. of Vincent Bourne's Jackdaw. 
They [English religious houses] stood often in defence- 
less solitudes, guarded by a feeble garrison of inmates 
and frequenters, a prey ready to the hand of the spoiler, 
whenever he should come up against them. 
R. W. Dixon, Hist. Church of Eng., i. 
frequently (fre'kwent-li), adv. It. Populously; 
in a crowded manner. 
The place became frequently inhabited on every side, as 
approved both healthfuHand delightfull. 
Sandys, Travailes, p. 279. 
2. Often; many times; at short intervals. 
The First is that the antient Gauls used to come fre- 
quently to be instructed here by the British Druids. 
Howell, Letters, iv. 19. 
The Christians, also, sallied frequently from the gates, 
and made great havoc in the irregular multitude of assail- 
ant^ Irving, Granada, p. 44. 
= Syn. 2. See often. 
frequentness (fre'kwent-nes), n. The fact ot 
being frequent or often repeated. 
tllHl pill C 1 1IU11 LA-SH.1IU. J." WUB , 
chieny used, because all vegetable and many mineral pig- 
ments are decomposed by lime or altered by light Ihe 
solidity of the painting depends upon the penetration of 
the colors into the plaster or mortar, and upon the crys- 
talline layer which forms upon its surface before the mor- 
tar has set, as it does in a few hours through the absorp- 
tion of carbonic acid from the atmosphere. If this crystal- 
line layer is disturbed, or if it has begun to form while the 
artist is painting, or if it forms between the thinner and 
thicker coats of color successively applied, the colors wi 
flake and fall away. Dry fresco (Italian fresco seeco) is 
method of fresco-painting upon a dry surface. Hie li 
coat of plaster, or intonaco, when perfectly dry, is rubbed 
with pumice-stone, and well wetted with water and a littl< 
lime the evening before painting, and again immediately 
before the artist begins work. The first step in this process 
is to pounce the outline of the design upon the wall. II 
phrase fresco seem is applied also to retouching in dis- 
temper. The implements used by fresco-painters include 
wooden and glass floats, trowels of wood and iron, palette- 
knives of steel and bone, a trimming-knife, a bone or ivory 
stylus, and brushes of hog-bristles and other hair, of such 
quality as to be neither curled nor burned by lime. <- 
pare distemper^. 
It is a very common error to term the ancient paintings 
found on church walls, &c., frescos, but there is scarcely 
an instance of a genuine fresco among them. They are 
distemper paintings on plaster, and quite distinct in their 
style, durability, and mode of manipulation. lauholt. 
The room which was not darkened, was hung with dam- 
ask of purple and gold, and the high ceiling was painted 
withgay/rcgcosof some story of the gods. 
C.E. Norton, Travel and Study in Italy, p. 30. 
Florentine fresco. See Florentine. Fresco colors. 
See color.- In fresco, in the open air ; out of doors : same 
as al fresco. 
Come, let us take, in fresco here, one quart. 
B. Jonson, New Inn, iv. 2. 
The house was doubly balconied in the front . . . for the 
clubsters to issue forth in fresco with hats and perukes 
Roger North, Lord Guilford, I. 145. 
fresco (fres'ko), v. t. [< fresco, .] To paint in 
fresco, as a wall. 
A melodramatic statue of Moaes receives the tables of 
the law from God the Father, with frescoed seraphim in 
the background. Howells, Venetian Life, xvni. 
frescoing (fres'ko-ing), n. [Verbal n. of fresco, 
v.] The process of painting in fresco; frescoed 
decoration. 
The frescoing, stained glass work, and tiling in the Union 
League Club building. 4rt Age, III. 198. 
fresco-painter (fres'ko-pan"ter), n. One who 
paints in fresco. 
fresco-painting (fres'ko-pan'ting), n. 1. The 
art or act of painting in fresco. 2. A fresco. 
fresh (fresh), a. and n. [< ME. fresh, fresch, 
fressh, fress, and transposed fersh, ferss, etc., < 
AS fersc, fresh (applied to water) (transposed 
from *frese), = D. versch = MLG. rarsclt, versch 
= OHG. frisc, MHG. vrisclt, G. frisch = Icel. 
ferskr, fresh (of food, meat, fish, fruit, etc., of 
smell, etc.), = Sw. fdrsk = Dan. fersk, fresh, 
sweet, etc. From the same ult. source are/mfc, 
a doublet of fresh, and fresco, < It. fresco = Sp. 
Pg. fresco = OF. fres, freis, frais, fris, fern. 
fresche, fraische, F. frais, fern. fraMie, fresh, 
cool: see fresco.'] I. a. 1. Having its original 
qualities ; unimpaired in vigor or purity ; not 
weakened, faded, tainted, or decayed ; not stale 
or worn: as, & fresh voice; afresh complexion; 
events still fresh in the memory; to keep meat 
or flowers fresh. 
Ful fressh and newe here gere apiked was. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 365. 
A grave young Swede with afresh Norse complexion. 
B. Taylor, Northern Travel, p. 14. 
. , 
2 Of unimpaired physical or mental condi- 
tion ; having full natural vigor, activity, beauty, 
bloom, etc.; hearty; sound; brisk; lively. 
