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.
The pineal gland hangs on the brain behind its very center. French 18th century scientist Rene Descartes thought that the pineal gland was the core of the soul, noting that it was the only unpaired organ in the body, and located in the center of the brain. He thought that the gland controlled the movement of the various body âhumors.â