insaniate

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English

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Etymology

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See insane.

Verb

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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

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insaniate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.