1607. Middleton, Your Five Gallants [De Vere]. They are MAD; she graced me with one private minute above their fortunes.
1611. Acts xxvi. 11 [Authorised Version].—And being exceeding MAD against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
1667. Pepys, Diary, iv. 482 [Bickers, 1875]. The king is MAD at her entertaining Jermin, and she is MAD at Jermin’s going to marry from her, so they are all MAD; and so the kingdom is governed.
1816. Pickering, Collection of Words, &c., s.v. Mad, in the sense of “angry,” is considered as a low word in this country, and at the present day is never used except in very familiar conversation.
1824. R. B. Peake, Americans Abroad, i. 1. I guess—I’m MADDED, but I’ll bite in my breath a bit—not that I’m sitch a tarnation fool as to believe all you tell me.
1848. Ruxton, Life in the Far West, p. 167. That nation is MAD.
1871. New Era, April [De Vere]. The Squire’s MAD riz.
1891. N. Gould, Double Event, p. 189. My eye! won’t he be just MAD.
Made-beer, subs. (Winchester).—College swipes bottled with rice, a few raisins, sugar, and nutmeg to make it “up.”
Magistrand, subs. (Aberdeen).—A student in arts of the last (the fourth) year. Cf. Bejan.