Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Subject to disordered fancy; of distempered mind; love-sick.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Love-sick.
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Examples
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To pursue the thread of Viola's destiny; -- she is engaged in the service of the Duke, whom she finds "fancy-sick" for the love of Olivia.
Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical 1827
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"'Importunate shepherd, whose loves are lawless because restless: are thy passions so extreme, that thou canst not conceal them with patience? or art thou so folly-sick, that thou must needs be fancy-sick, and in thy affection tied to such an exigent as none serves but Phoebe?
A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889
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