brainsick

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

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin

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

What, did the brainsick boy upbraid me so?

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

Old Salisbury, shame to thy silver hair, Thou mad misleader of thy brainsick son!

From King Henry VI, Part 2 by Shakespeare, William

To be brainsick and heartsick in a cruel and unfamiliar world is to be morbid.

From The Book of Susan A Novel by Dodd, Lee Wilson