insanifying

Verb

insanify (third-person singular simple present insanifies, present participle insanifying, simple past and past participle insanified)

1. (transitive) To render insane.
   • There may be, at present, some very respectable men at the head of these maniacs, who would insanify them with some degree of prudence, and keep them only half mad, if they could. But this won't do; Bedlam will break loose, and overpower its keepers.1809, The Edinburgh Review, volume 14, page 43