brainsick

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Chapel and Barn-howrie would be upon my Top, and pursue me before the Commissary, and every Body will look upon me, as brainsick or mad.

From The Laird o' Coul's Ghost by Anonymous

For in that case he is guilty of no crime against you; it is I that am mad and brainsick to accuse him now.

From The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1 by Pickard, Arthur Wallace

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

Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men, When for so slight and frivolous a cause Such factious emulations shall arise!

From King Henry VI, Part 1 by Shakespeare, William

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