<noun.communication> the raving of maniacs [ adv ]
in a raving manner
<adv.all> raving mad
Rave \Rave\ (r[=a]v), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Raved} (r[=a]vd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Raving}.] [F. r[^e]ver to rave, to be delirious, to dream; perhaps fr. L. rabere to rave, rage, be mad or furious. Cf. {Rage}, {Reverie}.] 1. To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging, as a madman.
In our madness evermore we rave. --Chaucer.
Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast? --Addison.
The mingled torrent of redcoats and tartans went raving down the valley to the gorge of Killiecrankie. --Macaulay.
2. To rush wildly or furiously. --Spenser.
3. To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; -- followed by about, of, or on; as, he raved about her beauty.
The hallowed scene Which others rave of, though they know it not. --Byron.
Raving \Rav"ing\ (r[=a]v"[i^]ng), a. Talking irrationally and wildly; as, a raving lunatic. -- {Rav"ing*ly}, adv.
The raving goes on, however, as cassolette d'escargots forestiere aux asperges sauvages rapidly disappears down English throats.
"I don't care if a woman walks into the room raving drunk and stark naked: it's not an excuse to be raped," said Claire Kaplan, executive director of the Washington-based National Coalition Against Sexual Assault.
No town square bronze portrays an 88-pound shrinking Bolivar, at times too weak to walk, coughing, sweating, sometimes raving.
This is how we're coping," says Vicki Riendeau, chewing a candy bar with her legs up on the desk. "If this keeps up, I'll be a raving lunatic.
He has done all this without stomping, raving or eating towels.
Of course, not every raving maniac is a genius.
Tyson said Green was "ranting and raving" that Tyson and promoter Don King owed him money.
"I'm moderately bearish, but not a raving bear," he says.
In Washington, of course, everyone claims to care about the "interdependent world economy," but in fact most politicians become raving nationalists at the first sign of trouble.