Definitions for: Lunacy

[n] obsolete terms for legal insanity

Webster (1913) Definition: Lu"na*cy, n.; pl. Lunacies. [See Lunatic.]
1. Insanity or madness; properly, the kind of insanity which
is broken by intervals of reason, -- formerly supposed to
be influenced by the changes of the moon; any form of
unsoundness of mind, except idiocy; mental derangement or
alienation. --Brande. --Burrill.

Your kindred shuns your house As beaten hence by
your strange lunacy. --Shak.

2. A morbid suspension of good sense or judgment, as through
fanaticism. --Dr. H. More.

Syn: Derangement; craziness; mania. See Insanity.

Synonyms: insaneness, madness

See Also: insanity

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