moon madness

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Noun

moon madness (uncountable)

  1. (historical) Lunacy supposed to be caused by sleeping in full moonlight
    • 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. ”, in Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley.  In Four Volumes.">…], volume I, London: Edward Moxon , published 1839, →OCLC, page 267:
      Want, and Moon-madness, and the Pest’s swift Bane,
      When its shafts smite—while yet its bow is twanging—
      Have each their mark and sign—some ghastly stain;