brainsick
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- brainsickly adverb
- brainsickness noun
Etymology
Origin of brainsick
before 1000; Middle English brain-seke, Old English brægensēoc. See brain, sick 1
Example Sentences
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And what a brainsick fool Ralph Roister Doister is Yourself knows well enough.
From The Growth of English Drama by Wynne, Arnold
And this man, at once unprincipled and brainsick, had in his keeping the understanding and the conscience of the unhappy Monmouth.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
Chapel and Barn-howrie would be upon my Top, and pursue me before the Commissary, and every Body will look upon me, as brainsick or mad.
From The Laird o' Coul's Ghost by Anonymous
Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men, When for so slight and frivolous a cause Such factious emulations shall arise!
From King Henry VI, Part 1 by Shakespeare, William
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 Morris, William
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