(bungler) 701; madman &c 504. one who will not set the Thames on fire;
one who did not invent gunpowder, qui n'a pas invente' la poudre [Fr];
no conjuror. Phr. fortuna favet fatuis[Lat]; les fous font les festinas
et les sages les mangent [Fr]; nomina stultorum parietibus harrent
[Lat]; stultorum plena sunt omnia [Lat][Cicero].
#502. Sanity.—N. sanity; soundness &c. adj.; rationality, sobriety,
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lucidity, lucid interval; senses, sober senses, right mind, sound mind,
mens sana[Lat].
V. be sane &c. adj.; retain one's senses, retain one's reason.
become sane &c. adj.; come to one's senses, sober down.
render sane &c. adj; bring to one's senses, sober.
Adj. sane, rational, reasonable, compos mentis, of sound mind;
sound,
sound-minded; lucid.
self-possessed; sober, sober-minded.
in one's sober senses, in one's right mind; in possession of one's
faculties.
Adv. sanely &c.adj.
#503. Insanity.—N. disordered reason, disordered intellect;
diseased mind, unsound mind, abnormal mind; derangement, unsoundness;
psychosis; neurosis; cognitive disorder; affective disorder[obs3].
insanity, lunacy; madness &c. adj.; mania, rabies, furor, mental
alienation, aberration; paranoia, schizophrenia; dementation[obs3],
dementia, demency[obs3]; phrenitis[obs3], phrensy[obs3], frenzy,
raving, incoherence, wandering, delirium, calenture of the brain[obs3];
delusion, hallucination; lycanthropy[obs3]; brain storm|!. vertigo,
dizziness, swimming; sunstroke, coup de soleil[Fr], siriasis[obs3].
fanaticism, infatuation, craze; oddity, eccentricity, twist, monomania
(caprice) 608; kleptodipsomania[obs3]; hypochondriasis &c. (low
spirits) 837[Med]; melancholia, depression, clinical depression, severe
depression; hysteria; amentia[obs3]. screw loose, tile loose, slate
loose; bee in one's bonnet, rats in the upper story. dotage &c.
(imbecility) 499. V. be insane &c. adj. become insane &c. adj; lose
one's senses, lose one's reason, lose one's faculties, lose one's wits;
go mad, run mad, lose one's marbles [coll.], go crazy, go bonkers
[coll.], flip one's wig [coll.], flip one's lid[coll.], flip
out[coll.], flip one's bush [coll.]. rave, dote, ramble, wander; drivel
&c. (be imbecile) 499; have a screw loose &c. n., have a devil; avoir
le diable au corps[Fr]; lose one's head &c. (be uncertain) 475. render
mad, drive mad &c adj.; madden, dementate[obs3], addle the wits, addle
the brain, derange the head, infatuate, befool[obs3]; turn the brain,
turn one's head; drive one nuts [coll.]. Adj. insane, mad, lunatic,
loony[coll.]; crazy, crazed, aliene[obs3], non compos mentis; not
right, cracked, touched; bereft of reason; all possessed, unhinged,
unsettled in one's mind; insensate, reasonless, beside oneself,
demented, daft; phrenzied[obs3], frenzied, frenetic; possessed,
possessed with a devil; deranged, maddened, moonstruck;
shatterpated[obs3]; mad-brained, scatter brained, shatter brained,
crackbrained; touched, tetched [dialect]; off one's head. [behavior
suggesting insanity] maniacal; delirious, lightheaded, incoherent,
rambling, doting, wandering; frantic, raving, stark staring mad, stark
raving mad, wild-eyed, berserk; delusional, hallucinatory. [behavior
somewhat resembling insanity] corybantic[obs3], dithyrambic; rabid,
giddy, vertiginous, wild; haggard, mazed; flighty; distracted,
distraught; depressed; agitated, hyped up; bewildered &c. (uncertain)