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

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

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

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

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