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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.