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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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"Insane" Quotes from Famous Books

... are amused? But it doesn't matter, (to the doctor) I think it is very kind of you—helping people go insane. I suppose they have all sorts of reasons for having to do it—reasons why they can't stay sane any longer. But tell me, how do they do it? It's not so easy to—get out. How ...

— Plays • Susan Glaspell

... valour, and his virtues. As he was taking it to the palace he was met by a friend at the outer gate, who inquired where he was going, and he informed him of his purpose. His friend asked him if he was insane, to offer an ode to a barbarian who hardly understood a word of the Persian language. "All that you say may be very true," said the poor poet, "but I am starving, and have no means of livelihood but by making verses. I must, therefore, ...

— Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers • W. A. Clouston

... queer creature: and he saw that the tumblebug was malodorous, certainly, but at bottom honest and well-meaning; and this seemed to Jurgen the saddest thing he had found among the Philistines. For the tumblebug was sincere in his insane doings, and all Philistia honored him sincerely, so that there was nowhere any hope for ...

— Jurgen - A Comedy of Justice • James Branch Cabell

... consequently rapid, terminating just as he reached his twentieth year. His fellow-students erected to his memory a monument of rough-hewn granite, with a white marble slab for the inscription. This was borrowed from the grave of Nathanael Mather, whom, in his almost insane eagerness for knowledge, and in his early death, ...

— Fanshawe • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... Sanseverino, of the princely Naples family; and Don Pietro di Cardona, a Sicilian. With each of the two first she quarrelled, and separately besought each to murder the other. They were friends and frustrated her plans by communicating them to one another. The third loved her with the insane passion of a very young man. What she desired, he promised to do blindly; and she bade him murder his two predecessors in her favour. At this time she was living at Milan, where the Duke of Bourbon was acting as viceroy for the Emperor. Don Pietro took twenty-five armed men of ...

— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds

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