Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Lunacy"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lunacy \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}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
lunacy
n : obsolete terms for legal insanity [syn: {madness}, {insaneness}]
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