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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

... payer exceedingly contented. Meanwhile Peter with difficulty restrained Leslie from "picking up" stray pieces of mosaic from tessellated pavements, and other curios. Oddly together with Leslie's feeling for the costly went the insane and indiscriminate avidity ...

— The Lee Shore • Rose Macaulay

... declared "urgent" by a vote of 370 to 251.—A man named Walker has been arrested on his own confession of a design to assassinate Louis Napoleon, for which purpose he had waited several hours for him to pass out of his gate. He proves to have been insane.—M. Thiers has been on a visit to London, where he was received with distinction. He visited Louis Philippe, whose health is ...

— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. • Various

... Glyde, whose eyes were interrogatively fixed on Mrs. Leveret. The fact of being deferred to was so new to the latter that it filled her with an insane temerity. "Why, Xingu, ...

— Xingu - 1916 • Edith Wharton

... letter, 'that, after all my experience, I should have put myself so much out of my way to serve a client. A man should do what he's paid to do, and what it is presumed that he will do, and nothing more. But here I have been instigated by an insane ambition to emulate the good-natured zeal of a fellow who is absolutely willing to sacrifice himself for the good of a stranger.' Then he went on to say that he could not leave ...

— John Caldigate • Anthony Trollope

... on principles of mutual benefit; they will never relax in their exertions till they gain a point of equal importance to both countries, and the viceroy will find it as easy to stop the current of the Canton River as to carry into effect the insane determinations of the Hong." This notice was naturally enough interpreted as a defiance by the viceroy, who placed the most severe restrictions he could on the trade, sent his troops into the foreign settlements to remove all Chinese servants, ...

— China • Demetrius Charles Boulger

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