brainsick
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]brainsick (comparative more brainsick, superlative most brainsick)
- Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless.
- 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
- Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men,
When for so slight and frivolous a cause
Such factious emulations shall arise!
- 1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [R. Robinson] for William Iones […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):
- Come vnckle, let vs leaue the brainsick king,
And henceforth parle with our naked swords.