† madshipn.
Obsolete.
Madness.
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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
c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (1973) 325 Hwet is mare medschipe þen for to leuen on him, & seggen he is godes sune?
c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) 32 (MED) Ha is..mare amead..þen is meadschipe [a1250 Titus madschipe] seolf.
c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 65 Nu is muche wunder of ure muchele meadschipe [c1225 Titus madschipe, a1300 Caius madchipe].
c1425 Serm. (BL Add.) in G. Cigman Lollard Serm. (1989) 132 Drunkeschipe is wodnesse... And þus, in þis madschipe, he is redi as a wod man to al maner of synnes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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