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  1. adjective Angry; resentful. See Synonyms at angry.
  2. adjective Suffering from a disorder of the mind; insane.
  3. adjective Temporarily or apparently deranged by violent sensations, emotions, or ideas: mad with jealousy.
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  1. Middle English, from Old English gemǣdde, past participle of *gemǣdan, to madden, from gemād, insane; see mei-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English madde; from Middle English made, maad, mad, also in comp. *med, from Anglo-Saxon gemǣd (in this form a contraction of gemǣded, in glosses also gemaeded, gemœdid, properly past participle of the verb, reduced as in fat, a., orig. past participle, hid, past participle, etc.), also more orig. gemād, mad, senseless, vain, foolish, = Old Saxon gemēd, foolish, = Old High German gameit, vain, foolish, proud, Middle High German gemeit, lively, cheerful, gay, = Icelandic meiddr (past participle for orig. *meidhr) = Gothic (Moesogothic) gamaids, maimed (the senses ‘foolish, mad,’ and ‘maimed’ being apparently different developments of an earlier sense ‘changed,’ ‘altered,’ appearing in Gothic (Moesogothic) in the simple form), the form gemād being from ge-, a generalizing prefix, + mād, mad, found but once (in mōd mōd, ‘mad mood,’ taken by Grein as a compound noun, ‘madness’), = Gothic (Moesogothic) *maids, found in comp. as above, and in the derived verb maidjan, change, alter, corrupt, inmaidjan, change, exchange, alter, transfigure, later inmaideins, change, exchange.
  2. from mad, adjective
  3. from Middle English madden (preterit madded), from Anglo-Saxon gemǣdan (past participle gemǣded, also reduced to gemǣd), make foolish or mad, from gemǣd, gemād, foolish, mad: see mad, a.
 

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