lunatizing

Verb

lunatize (third-person singular simple present lunatizes, present participle lunatizing, simple past and past participle lunatized)

1. (rare, transitive) To turn someone into a lunatic.
   • The spiritual disease of the ego which consists in continuously sounding its own note produces madness; and indeed the monotony of it almost lunatizes others also.1893, “The Ascent of Life”, in The Arena, volume 9, page 486