Highly excited with strong emotion or frustration; frenzied: frantic with worry. Characterized by rapid and disordered or nervous activity: made a frantic last-minute search for the lost key. Archaic Mentally deranged. Origin of frantic. Middle English frantik from Old French frenetique from Latin phrenÄticus; see frenetic. Related Forms:
Quotes with: antiquity, eyes, indicate, soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul and: âWhatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right.
This efflux of their combined energies inspires them and exasperates the mighty resonance of metal which they rule. Individual souls are an efflux from the all-compassing world-soul. They held that the soul of man is merely an efflux of the universal soul, and that it comes into the body from without. He saw some large sand banks before him, which had been left bare by the efflux of the tide.