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Mad   /mæd/   Listen
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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"Mad" Quotes from Famous Books



... beloved; her lover lost his reason. For five years she gave herself, with love's devotion, to the mere mechanical well-being of that unhappy man, whose madness she so penetrated that she never believed him mad. She was simple in manner, frank in speech, and her pallid face was not lacking in strength and character, though its features were regular. She never spoke of the events of her life. But at times a sudden quiver passed over her as she listened ...
— The Vicar of Tours • Honore de Balzac

... beating in mad terror against his own, but at his words it seemed to grow a little calmer. ...
— The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell

... so boiling mad all the rest of the afternoon that he could not see the figures clearly, and made countless mistakes, necessitating an extra two hours' work on the books before he could even think ...
— Mr. Bingle • George Barr McCutcheon

... loveliness, thou well of grace, Thou dove of peace in fret and restlessness, Thou ray of light to those who, lightless, grope. Thou house of God, thou garden of sweet shades, Rest without ceasing, refuge of the sad, Bliss without mourning, flow'r that never fades, Alien to death, and shelter in the mad Whirlpool of life, to all who seek thy port. Lady of Heaven, in whom all hearts rejoice, Thou roseate ...
— The Evolution of Love • Emil Lucka

... in August, 1774, proceeded to the City of Mexico, and was ordered by Viceroy Bucareli to San Blas, where he was given command of the schooner Sonora. The squadron under Heceta had hardly got under way, when the commander of the San Carlos, Don Miguel Manrique, suddenly went mad. Ayala was ordered to the command of the packet-boat, and returned to San Blas with the unfortunate officer, to follow the squadron a ...
— The March of Portola - and, The Log of the San Carlos and Original Documents - Translated and Annotated • Zoeth S. Eldredge and E. J. Molera


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