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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Pardon them for their native ignorance, And brainsick passion; For, after all, true men of sense will say,— Their works can never parallel thy play.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir
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
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
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
And what a brainsick fool Ralph Roister Doister is Yourself knows well enough.
From The Growth of English Drama by Wynne, Arnold
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