brainsick

[breyn-sik]

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adjective

insane; crazy; mad.

Origin of brainsick

before 1000; Middle English brain-seke, Old English brægensēoc. See brain, sick¹

Related formsbrain·sick·ly, adverbbrain·sick·ness, noun

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Examples from the Web for brainsick

Historical Examples

To be brainsick and heartsick in a cruel and unfamiliar world is to be morbid.
The Book of Susan
Lee Wilson Dodd
And this man, at once unprincipled and brainsick, had in his keeping the understanding and the conscience of the unhappy Monmouth.
The History of England from the Accession of James II.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Posterity can do simply nothing for a man; nor even seem to do much if the man be not brainsick.
Past and Present
Thomas Carlyle

British Dictionary definitions for brainsick

brainsick

adjective

relating to or caused by insanity; crazy; mad

Derived Formsbrainsickly, adverbbrainsickness, noun

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Examples from the Web for brainsick

Historical Examples

To be brainsick and heartsick in a cruel and unfamiliar world is to be morbid.

And this man, at once unprincipled and brainsick, had in his keeping the understanding and the conscience of the unhappy Monmouth.

Posterity can do simply nothing for a man; nor even seem to do much if the man be not brainsick.

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