lunacyn.

Brit.

/ˈluːnəsi/,

/ˈljuːnəsi/, U.S.

/ˈlunəsi/

Etymology: < lunatic adj. and n.: see -acy suffix 3.

a. The condition of being a lunatic; intermittent insanity such as was formerly supposed to be brought about by the changes of the moon; now applied gen. to any form of insanity (idiocy usually excepted). In legal use, such mental unsoundness as interferes with civil rights or transactions. †Also, a fit or attack of such insanity.commission of lunacy: see commission n.¹ Phrases 5b. commissioner in lunacy, (a) the title given by the statute of 1842 to two officers then first appointed; in 1845 changed to master in lunacy (see below); (b) in subsequent use, a member of a board appointed by the Lord Chancellor to inspect asylums and grant licences to private persons who undertake the charge of lunatics. master in lunacy, a legal officer whose duty it is to investigate the mental condition of persons alleged to be insane and to make orders dealing with the persons and estates of lunatics.

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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness

woodnessc1000

woodshipc1000

madshipc1225

woodc1275

woodhead1303

ragec1330

amentiaa1398

madnessa1398

frenzy?a1400

madheada1400

maddingc1400

alienation?a1425

furiosity?a1475

derverye1480

forcenery1480

furiousnessc1500

unwitness1527

unwitting1527

demencya1529

straughtness1530

insaniea1538

brainsickness1541

lunacy1541

amenty1557

distraughtness1576

dementation?1583

straughtedness1583

insanity1590

crazedness1593

bedlam1598

dementia1598

insanation1599

non compos mentis1607

distraction1609

daffinga1614

disinsanitya1625

cerebrosity1647

vecordy1656

fanaticness1662

non-sanity1675

insaneness1730

craziness1755

hydrophobia1760

vecord1788

derangement1800

vesania1800

a screw loose1810

unsoundness1825

dementedness1833

craze1841

psychosis1847

crackiness1861

feyness1873

crack1891

meshugas1898

white ant1908

crackedness1910

pottiness1933

loopiness1939

wackiness1941

screwballism1942

kink1959

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness > fit of madness

widden-dreamOE

resea1300

ragec1330

lunacy1541

raving1549

fit1594

moon1607

ravening1607

lunesa1616

rapturea1616

widdrim1644

raptus1740

brain storm1890

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > lunacy

lunacy1541

moonflawa1652

lunaticness1662

moon-madness1817

1541 Act 33 Hen. VIII c. 20 §1 Suche persons..were..than not mad nor lunatike, but sithen that time fallen to madnes or lunacy.

1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 4 Lordes, can you by no meanes finde The cause of our sonne Hamlets lunacie?

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Lunatique, Lunaticke, in a Lunacie.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) iii. iii. 7 The termes of our estate, may not endure Hazard so dangerous as doth hourely grow Out of his Lunacies.

1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi vii. §3. 341 This disease of lunacie, is a disease whose distemper followeth the course of the moon.

1764 R. Burn Hist. Poor Laws 55 Persons, who by lunacy or otherwise are furiously mad.

1874 J. C. Bucknill & D. H. Tuke Man. Psychol. Med. (ed. 3) 14 If the Lord Chancellor..employ a person not a Commissioner in Lunacy to inspect..the state of any asylum, hospital, gaol, house, or place wherein any lunatic is confined.

1880 Libr. Universal Knowl. IX. 198 Declared a lunatic..by the certificate of a master in lunacy.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 453 The tendency..of all lunacy is to set at naught first and most frequently the optional and then the obligatory rules of conduct.

b. transferred and figurative. Mad folly. Often in much weakened sense.

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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > madness, extreme folly > [noun]

woodnessc1000

woodhead1303

madnessc1384

ragec1390

lunacya1592

idiotism1592

wittolry1592

midsummer madnessa1616

hare-brainedness1656

idiotry1757

insanity1840

meshugas1898

a1592 R. Greene Alcida (1617) sig. E One while accusing loue as a lunacie, and then againe [etc.].

c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) iv. 1549 The hellish & mad lunacy Of them that doe commit apostacie For gold.

1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady Pref. p. iii To put a Stop to so universal a Lunacy and Madness.

1817 S. T. Coleridge Blessed are ye that Sow 99 The wicked lunacies of the Gaming Table.

1884 Manch. Examiner 25 June 5/2 All talk of this kind is mere lunacy, involving, moreover, a more than lunatic disregard of facts.

c. attributive.

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1881 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 112/1 The commencement of legislation such as that known in England as the Lunacy Acts.

1887 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 12 Feb. 338/2 Under the present lunacy law.

1897 Daily News 17 Feb. 5/1 Finding that he could not fill up the necessary lunacy forms.

†2. = Moon-blindness. (Cf. lunatic adj. 2b.)

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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > disorders of eyes

walleye1523

lunacy1600

moon-eye1607

eyes of wall1611

dragon1639

moon blindnessc1720

moonc1721

glass eye1831

pink-eye1855

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xxx. 200 The horse-mules are more tractable and more easie to guide and learne, then the mare-mules be. Both of them are subiect to lunacie.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	lunacy
释义	lunacyn. Brit. /ˈluːnəsi/, /ˈljuːnəsi/, U.S. /ˈlunəsi/ Etymology: < lunatic adj. and n.: see -acy suffix 3. 1. a. The condition of being a lunatic; intermittent insanity such as was formerly supposed to be brought about by the changes of the moon; now applied gen. to any form of insanity (idiocy usually excepted). In legal use, such mental unsoundness as interferes with civil rights or transactions. †Also, a fit or attack of such insanity.commission of lunacy: see commission n.¹ Phrases 5b. commissioner in lunacy, (a) the title given by the statute of 1842 to two officers then first appointed; in 1845 changed to master in lunacy (see below); (b) in subsequent use, a member of a board appointed by the Lord Chancellor to inspect asylums and grant licences to private persons who undertake the charge of lunatics. master in lunacy, a legal officer whose duty it is to investigate the mental condition of persons alleged to be insane and to make orders dealing with the persons and estates of lunatics. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness woodnessc1000 woodshipc1000 madshipc1225 woodc1275 woodhead1303 ragec1330 amentiaa1398 madnessa1398 frenzy?a1400 madheada1400 maddingc1400 alienation?a1425 furiosity?a1475 derverye1480 forcenery1480 furiousnessc1500 unwitness1527 unwitting1527 demencya1529 straughtness1530 insaniea1538 brainsickness1541 lunacy1541 amenty1557 distraughtness1576 dementation?1583 straughtedness1583 insanity1590 crazedness1593 bedlam1598 dementia1598 insanation1599 non compos mentis1607 distraction1609 daffinga1614 disinsanitya1625 cerebrosity1647 vecordy1656 fanaticness1662 non-sanity1675 insaneness1730 craziness1755 hydrophobia1760 vecord1788 derangement1800 vesania1800 a screw loose1810 unsoundness1825 dementedness1833 craze1841 psychosis1847 crackiness1861 feyness1873 crack1891 meshugas1898 white ant1908 crackedness1910 pottiness1933 loopiness1939 wackiness1941 screwballism1942 kink1959 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness > fit of madness widden-dreamOE resea1300 ragec1330 lunacy1541 raving1549 fit1594 moon1607 ravening1607 lunesa1616 rapturea1616 widdrim1644 raptus1740 brain storm1890 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > lunacy lunacy1541 moonflawa1652 lunaticness1662 moon-madness1817 1541 Act 33 Hen. VIII c. 20 §1 Suche persons..were..than not mad nor lunatike, but sithen that time fallen to madnes or lunacy. 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 4 Lordes, can you by no meanes finde The cause of our sonne Hamlets lunacie? 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Lunatique, Lunaticke, in a Lunacie. a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) iii. iii. 7 The termes of our estate, may not endure Hazard so dangerous as doth hourely grow Out of his Lunacies. 1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi vii. §3. 341 This disease of lunacie, is a disease whose distemper followeth the course of the moon. 1764 R. Burn Hist. Poor Laws 55 Persons, who by lunacy or otherwise are furiously mad. 1874 J. C. Bucknill & D. H. Tuke Man. Psychol. Med. (ed. 3) 14 If the Lord Chancellor..employ a person not a Commissioner in Lunacy to inspect..the state of any asylum, hospital, gaol, house, or place wherein any lunatic is confined. 1880 Libr. Universal Knowl. IX. 198 Declared a lunatic..by the certificate of a master in lunacy. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 453 The tendency..of all lunacy is to set at naught first and most frequently the optional and then the obligatory rules of conduct. b. transferred and figurative. Mad folly. Often in much weakened sense. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > madness, extreme folly > [noun] woodnessc1000 woodhead1303 madnessc1384 ragec1390 lunacya1592 idiotism1592 wittolry1592 midsummer madnessa1616 hare-brainedness1656 idiotry1757 insanity1840 meshugas1898 a1592 R. Greene Alcida (1617) sig. E One while accusing loue as a lunacie, and then againe [etc.]. c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) iv. 1549 The hellish & mad lunacy Of them that doe commit apostacie For gold. 1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady Pref. p. iii To put a Stop to so universal a Lunacy and Madness. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Blessed are ye that Sow 99 The wicked lunacies of the Gaming Table. 1884 Manch. Examiner 25 June 5/2 All talk of this kind is mere lunacy, involving, moreover, a more than lunatic disregard of facts. c. attributive. ΚΠ 1881 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 112/1 The commencement of legislation such as that known in England as the Lunacy Acts. 1887 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 12 Feb. 338/2 Under the present lunacy law. 1897 Daily News 17 Feb. 5/1 Finding that he could not fill up the necessary lunacy forms. †2. = Moon-blindness. (Cf. lunatic adj. 2b.) ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > disorders of eyes walleye1523 lunacy1600 moon-eye1607 eyes of wall1611 dragon1639 moon blindnessc1720 moonc1721 glass eye1831 pink-eye1855 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xxx. 200 The horse-mules are more tractable and more easie to guide and learne, then the mare-mules be. Both of them are subiect to lunacie. 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