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Brain-struck (Greek, phrēn, the heart as the seat of reason), madness being a disorder of the understanding.
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“Cebel’s frantic rites have made them mad.”
Spenser.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.