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delirium|dɪˈlɪrɪəm|
Pl. deliriums, -ia.
[a. L. dēlīrium (Celsus), madness, derangement, deriv. of dēlīrāre to be deranged: see delire v.]
1. A disordered state of the mental faculties resulting from disturbance of the functions of the brain, and characterized by incoherent speech, hallucinations, restlessness, and frenzied or maniacal excitement.
1599Broughton's Lett. xii. 42 It is but the franticke delirium of one, whose pride hath made him ϕρεναπατᾶν. 1656Ridgley Pract. Physick 143 The signs are a weak Pulse..delirium. 1670Cotton Espernon iii. xii. 648 His Deliriums had far longer intervals than before. 1707Floyer Physic. Pulse-Watch 357 The Deliria and Melancholic Fevers are indicated by this Pulse. 1756Burke Subl. & B. Introd. Wks. I. 103 Opium is pleasing to Turks, on account of the agreeable delirium it produces. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop xi, In a raging fever accompanied with delirium. 1871Sir T. Watson Princ. Physic (ed. 5) I. xviii. 360 The delirium you will generally find to be not a fierce or mischievous delirium, but a busy delirium.
2. fig. Uncontrollable excitement or emotion, as of a delirious person; frenzied rapture; wildly absurd thought or speech.
1650Howell Masaniello i. 126 He had broken out into a thousand delirium's and fooleries. 1709Steele Tatler No. 125 ⁋10 Any Free-thinker whom they shall find publishing his Deliriums. 1791–1823D'Israeli Cur. Lit. (1866) 2/1 Testimonies of men of letters of the pleasurable delirium of their researches. 1836W. Irving Astoria II. 225 He jumped up, shouted, clapped his hands, and danced in a delirium of joy, until he upset the canoe. 1879Geo. Eliot Theo. Such xiv. 254 The gorgeous delirium of gladiatorial shows. |