Citations:paranœics

Noun: obscure antiquated form of

 * 1891, The Physician and Surgeon, John William Keating; Volume XIII, № XII, page #570:
 * Many pronounced paranœics and diseased persons who have abstained from alcohol, are posing as examples of cure from this or that means or remedy—persons in whom the drink impulse has died away naturally, no matter what remedy may be used.
 * 1898, Cesare Lombroso, in The Forum; Volume XXVII, page #539:
 * He would be no rash alienist who, instead of seeking for useless interpretations, would accept it as one of the symbolical characters which are the specialties of paranœics, especially when they occupy themselves with their own names, from which they extract auguries which are the beginning of the end.
 * 1916, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Self‐Reliance, The Bobbs‐Merrill Company; Chapter X, page #112:
 * And yet, in our industrial society organized as it is, a considerable part of one’s usefulness, and a large part of one's happiness depends upon one’s developing somehow the capacity not to buy.  Those who never acquire that capacity go down to shipwreck in modern America as surely as morphine victims or paranœics.