lunatize

English

Verb

lunatize (third-person singular simple present lunatizes, present participle lunatizing, simple past and past participle lunatized)

1. (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.