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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Disordered in mind.

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Examples

  • I have found the mind-sick weed, drabarni, and something else as well.

    Fiddler Fair Lackey, Mercedes 1998

  • His friends were as mind-sick and exhausted as he was, and would be in no position to console him.

    The Black Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1994

  • Well, so he was, but there are illnesses of the mind as well as of the body, and Heath was mind-sick.

    The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery Marjorie Douie

  • After morning prayer also, we have the Litany and suffrages, an invocation in mine opinion not devised without the great assistance of the Spirit of God, although many curious mind-sick persons utterly condemn it as superstitious, and savouring of conjuration and sorcery.

    Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

  • MacLean would never have told -- how tired and hopelessly heart-sick and mind-sick she was to-night.

    The Primrose Ring Ruth Sawyer 1925

  • After morning prayer also, we have the Litany and suffrages, an invocation in mine opinion not devised without the great assistance of the Spirit of God, although many curious mind-sick persons utterly condemn it as superstitious, and savouring of conjuration and sorcery.

    Of the Ancient and Present Estate of the Church of England. Chapter V. [1577, Book II., Chapter 5; 1585, Book II., Chapter 1 1909

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