brainsickly

English

Etymology

brainsick +‎ -ly

Adverb

brainsickly (comparative more brainsickly, superlative most brainsickly)

  1. (obsolete) In a brainsick manner.
    • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act II, Scene 2,
      LADY MACBETH. […] You do unbend your noble strength, to think
      So brainsickly of things.

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(See the entry for brainsickly in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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