brainsick
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of brainsick
before 1000; Middle English brain-seke, Old English brægensēoc. See brain, sick 1
Example Sentences
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And then again he strove to put that from him, saying that what he had seen was but meet for one brainsick, and a dreamer of dreams.
From Wood Beyond the World by William Morris
And what a brainsick fool Ralph Roister Doister is Yourself knows well enough.
From The Growth of English Drama by Arnold Wynne
To be brainsick and heartsick in a cruel and unfamiliar world is to be morbid.
From The Book of Susan A Novel by Lee Wilson Dodd
For in that case he is guilty of no crime against you; it is I that am mad and brainsick to accuse him now.
From The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1 by Arthur Wallace Pickard
Good Lord! what madness rules in brainsick men When, for so slight and frivolous a cause, Such —— emulations shall arise.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald
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