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
Calculating men who have thought only of the interest of the priesthood, have known well how best to stimulate and to display the spasmodic movements of a brainsick disinterestedness.
From Literary and General Lectures and Essays by Kingsley, Charles
What, did the brainsick boy upbraid me so?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various
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
Old Salisbury, shame to thy silver hair, Thou mad misleader of thy brainsick son!
From King Henry VI, Part 2 by Shakespeare, William
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