brainsick

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What, did the brainsick boy upbraid me so?

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various

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

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

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

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