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adjective

Insane adj.

Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted. See Insanity, 2.

Used by, or appropriated to, insane persons; as, an insane hospital.

Causing insanity or madness. (R.) "Or have we eaten on the insaneroot That takes the reason prisoner?"

Characterized by insanity or the utmost folly; chimerical; unpractical; as, an insane plan, attempt, etc. "I know not which was the insane measure."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Insane" Quotes from Famous Books

... you told me this," I said gently. "Do not reproach yourself for having done so, I beg. Your uncle has been misled by what he has heard of my family, who are all more or less insane. Far from being mad, I am actually the only rational man named Legge in the three kingdoms. I will prove this to you, and at the same time keep your indiscretion in countenance, by telling you something I ought not ...

— The Miraculous Revenge - Little Blue Book #215 • Bernard Shaw

... said there was a historical connection between the Royal Asylum for the Insane and ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, March 10th, 1920 • Various

... is dangerous to offspring. The observation is universal, the children of married first cousins are too often idiots, insane, clump-footed, crippled, blind, or variously diseased. First cousins are always sure to impart all the hereditary disease in both families to their children. If both are healthy ...

— Searchlights on Health - The Science of Eugenics • B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols

... in the public press. Despite the heavy penalty which I now paid for thus loading my mind, I believe this unwise indulgence gave a breadth and variety to my peculiar psychological experience which it otherwise would have lacked. For with an insane ingenuity I managed to connect myself with almost every crime of importance of which I had ...

— A Mind That Found Itself - An Autobiography • Clifford Whittingham Beers

... no means sufficiently embonpoint to be strictly handsome, from an African savage's point of view, still attractive enough to justify his choice of either of them as a wife. The difficulty with these women was that they were unfortunately all insane—a circumstance which (in accordance with one of the many superstitious beliefs of the natives, and quite apart from the equally important objection of consequent unsuitability) effectually precluded any resort to threats or compulsion for enabling the king to carry out his plans. And ...

— The Log of the Flying Fish - A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure • Harry Collingwood

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