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adjective

Mad adj. (compar. madder; superl. maddest)

1.

Disordered in intellect; crazy; insane. "I have heard my grandsire say full oft, Extremity of griefs would make men mad."

2.

Excited beyond self-control or the restraint of reason; inflamed by violent or uncontrollable desire, passion, or appetite; as, to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred; mad against political reform. "It is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols." "And being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities."

3.

Proceeding from, or indicating, madness; expressing distraction; prompted by infatuation, fury, or extreme rashness. "Mad demeanor." "Mad wars destroy in one year the works of many years of peace." "The mad promise of Cleon was fulfilled."

4.

Extravagant; immoderate. "Be mad and merry." "Fetching mad bounds."

5.

Furious with rage, terror, or disease; said of the lower animals; as, a mad bull; esp., having hydrophobia; rabid; as, a mad dog.

6.

Angry; out of patience; vexed; as, to get mad at a person. (Colloq.)

7.

Having impaired polarity; applied to a compass needle. (Colloq.)

Like mad, like a mad person; in a furious manner; as, to run like mad. .

To run mad.

(a)

To become wild with excitement.

(b)

To run wildly about under the influence of hydrophobia; to become affected with hydrophobia.

To run mad after, to pursue under the influence of infatuation or immoderate desire. "The world is running mad after farce."

noun

Mad n. (Written also made) (Zool.) An earthworm.

verb

Mad v. t. (past & past part. madded; pres. part. madding) To make mad or furious; to madden. "Had I but seen thy picture in this plight, It would have madded me."

Mad v. i. To be mad; to go mad; to rave. See Madding. (Archaic) "Festus said with great voice, Paul thou maddest."

Mad v. obs. P. p. of Made.

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Etymology of 'Mad'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mad" Quotes from Famous Books

... Mr. Potts's got pokeberry and silver maple growin' all over his place, too, and he's as mad as—Well, you just ought to hear him snortin' around town. ...

— Elbow-Room - A Novel Without a Plot • Charles Heber Clark (AKA Max Adeler)

... lately took place at Cobham church: The earl of Darnley was followed there by one of his pointers, which shortly became mad, and threw the whole congregation into confusion and alarm. A countryman, with great courage, procured a rope, and slipped it round the animal's neck, and hung him across one of the pews. Fortunately no ...

— The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor - Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 • Samuel James Arnold

... rest of his life—and now they had come to an end. Now he had to show that he deserved them. "Good," he said, and leaving her side he softly descended the stairs, crept cat-foot across the tavern floor and insinuated himself dexterously into the society of his friends, who were by this time far too mad and merry to show any surprise at his sudden re-appearance, or to question whence he came. Only one of the fellowship was away from the board—Ren de Montigny, who had risen as soon as the soldier ...

— If I Were King • Justin Huntly McCarthy

... today would be accepted nowhere unless by a court and jury composed of the inmates of a lunatic asylum, if even by them. It is unnecessary to say that the more severe the persecution, the more widespread did witchcraft become. Every person tortured accused others and whole communities went mad with grief and fear and superstition. No amount of human evidence establishing the actual whereabouts of the accused at the time they were asserted by the witness on the rack to have been at the sabbath would avail. The husbands were told that they had seen or held only the devil-created ...

— The Necessity of Atheism • Dr. D.M. Brooks

... have discovered the track of a chamois, and are going to take the gentleman to see if he can get a shot at it. He seems quite mad upon hunting, and I dare say you will get a five-franc piece ...

— Harper's Young People, November 4, 1879 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

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