insaniate

English

Etymology

See insane.

Verb

insaniate (third-person singular simple present insaniates, present participle insaniating, simple past and past participle insaniated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To render unsound; to make mad.
    • 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political
      Doth not the distemper of the body insaniate the ſoule?

References

insaniate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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