lunatize
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[edit]Verb
[edit]lunatize (third-person singular simple present lunatizes, present participle lunatizing, simple past and past participle lunatized)
- (transitive, rare) To turn someone into a lunatic.
- 1893, “The Ascent of Life”, in The Arena, volume 9, page 486:
- The spiritual disease of the ego which consists in continuously sounding its own note produces madness; and indeed the monotony of it almost lunatizes others also.
- 1962, Malcolm Elwin, Lord Byron's Wife[1]:
- He will understand — even if he pretends ignorance, as the idea of being lunatized has never been wholly absent from his mind.