Definition of "bedlamite"

[S]he cursed him with the bitterest imprecations, and raved like a Bedlamite at the door, which she attempted to burst open.

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […]

Upon coming to the edge of the outer surf, the man at the stern of our boat, steering with a long oar, began to stamp his feet and roar like a bedlamite […] .

1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 91

Bradly stood listening to the old woman's squalling, resenting its note of febrile violence; its bedlamite insolence of old age.

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, page 195