mad-brained, a.
(ˈmædbreɪnd)
Having or manifesting a mad brain; hot-headed, uncontrolled.
| 1577 G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 57 And Skelton that same madbraynd knave Look how he knawes a deade horse boane. 1596 Shakes. Tam. Shr. iii. ii. 165 This mad-brain'd bridegroome tooke him such a cuffe, That downe fell Priest and booke. 1607 ― Timon v. i. 177 Giuing our holy Virgins to the staine Of contumelious, beastly, mad-brain'd warre. 1649 G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. IV, cxlvii, The Mad⁓Brain'd Spartacus. 1751 Eliza Heywood Betsy Thoughtless I. 104 The heedless levities of the one sex, and the mad-brained passions of the other. 1819 Shelley Peter Bell vi. xx, A mad-brained goblin for a guide. 1894 G. M. Fenn Real Gold 379 Your father's mad-brained ideas. |