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
Posterity can do simply nothing for a man; nor even seem to do much, if the man be not brainsick.
From Past and Present by Carlyle, Thomas
To be brainsick and heartsick in a cruel and unfamiliar world is to be morbid.
From The Book of Susan A Novel by Dodd, Lee Wilson
What, did the brainsick boy upbraid me so?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various
Posterity can do simply nothing for a man; nor even seem to do much if the man be not brainsick.
From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas
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