insaniate
English edit
Etymology edit
See insane.
Verb edit
insaniate (third-person singular simple present insaniates, present participle insaniating, simple past and past participle insaniated)
- (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 edit
“insaniate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.