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c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) l. 516 Þine ehnen schule doskin,..& of þi breines turnunge þin heaued aken sare [L. caput vertigine fatigatur].]

c1440 (?a1396) W. Hilton in G. G. Perry Eng. Prose Treat. (1921) 18 He..by vndiscrete trauellynge turnes þe braynes in his heuede.

1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 104 Cosimus, a kinde of charmed sower mares milke very forcible to turne the braine.

1663 S. Tuke Adventures of Five Hours iii. 34 Fortune has lifted me to such a Height Of Happiness, that it may Turn my Brain, When I look down upon the rest o'th' world.

1714 D. Manley Adventures of Rivella 59 Her Pride working to an excessive Height, soon turn'd her Brain.

1745 E. Young Complaint: Night the Eighth 26 An Eminence, though fancy'd, turns the Brain.

1816 W. Scott Black Dwarf v, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 115 Your plays and romances have positively turned your brain.

1852 J. H. Newman Callista (1856) xxvi. 235 Her friends say that the fright has turned her brain.

1905 Strand Mag. 30 790/2 ‘Poor child,’ said another woman; ‘the terror of the wolves has turned her brain.’

1932 E. Lasker Man. Chess iv. 168/1 And if he by chance had more time for it and in addition had genius for the game, to see through hundreds of variations would turn his brain [1927 heat his head].

2008 J. Komlosy Cracking Up x. 83 My mother was putting on her heeled shoes, which really worried me as the operation had obviously turned her brain. ‘You can't wear high heeled court shoes to climb hills and cross bumpy moors.’