单词 | past one's mind |
释义 | > as lemmaspast one's mind a. The healthy or normal condition of the mental faculties; mental balance; sanity. Now chiefly in phrases indicating (in negative contexts) the absence of rationality, as to lose one's mind, etc. Also formerly †past one's mind, (Scottish) †by one's mind: = out of one's mind at sense 20c.to be in one's right mind: see right adj. 8a. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > [noun] healthc1000 in witc1000 i-mindOE mindc1380 reasonc1405 wit-state?c1450 common sense1536 sense1536 senses1540 soundness1548 sanitya1616 wisdoma1616 mental health?1650 saneness1727 mens sana1853 balance1856 lucidity1874 clear-headedness1882 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > be or become mad [verb (intransitive)] dwelec900 wedec900 awedeeOE starea1275 braidc1275 ravea1325 to be out of mindc1325 woodc1374 to lose one's mindc1380 madc1384 forgetc1385 to go out of one's minda1398 to wede (out) of, but wita1400 foolc1400 to go (also fall, run) mada1450 forcene1490 ragec1515 waltc1540 maddle?c1550 to go (also run, set) a-madding (or on madding)1565 pass of wita1616 to have a gad-bee in one's brain1682 madden1704 to go (also be) off at the nail1721 distract1768 craze1818 to get a rat1890 to need (to have) one's head examined (also checked, read)1896 (to have) bats in the belfryc1901 to have straws in one's hair1923 to take the bats1927 to go haywire1929 to go mental1930 to go troppo1941 to come apart1954 c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) 2584 (MED) Nad sche þer noȝt of hure bone fulich y-mad an ende, Or heo for hunger had forgone hir wit & ek hur mende. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. 7074 (MED) He restored was To mynde ageyn, & ete no more no gras. c1450 ( G. Chaucer Bk. Duchess 511 He had wel nygh lost hys mynde. c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame 564 With that vois..My mynde cam to me ageyn. 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. cxxiiiv Than lepe they about as folke past theyr mynde. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 353 Normond with this ansuer was halfe by his mynd. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xxi. 60 I feare I am not in my perfect mind . View more context for this quotation 1659 E. Elys Divine Poems 16 On Thee I thought, and straight I lost my Minde! 1735 G. Berkeley Def. Free-thinking in Math. §8 in Wks. (1871) III. 306 By such as are in their right mind. 1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. xix. 291 It hath been said, that a non compos himself, though he be afterwards brought to a right mind, shall not be permitted to allege his own insanity in order to avoid such grant. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess vii. 146 And still she fear'd that I should lose my mind. 1912 Church Q. Rev. 73 326 We will classify them all (idiots, imbeciles, or feeble-minded) under the name ‘Ament’, meaning people without mind in contrast to the class of Dement, which we will assume to mean all those who have been sane, but have lost their mind. 1960 Blackwood's Mag. July 71 No fielder in his right mind attempts a running catch. 1971 Jamaican Weekly Gleaner 3 Nov. 5/1 Mi dear Mam. Last week I got this bright idea that I would beg little time off and go get the mind together with the long weekend in Miami. 1993 B. Anderson All Nice Girls (1994) xii. 222 Her mind's gone but she's happy there. 1997 M. Collin & J. Godfrey Altered State ii. 80 Good people I know lost their minds,..mainly through tripping. < as lemmas |
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