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hallucinate, v.|hæˈl(j)uːsɪneɪt| [f. pa. ppl. stem of L. (h)allūcinārī (more correctly ālūcinārī), to wander in mind, talk idly, prate. Cf. F. halluciner.] †1. trans. To deceive. Obs. rare—0.
1604R. Cawdrey Table Alph., Hallucinate, to deceiue, or blind. 1623Cockeram, Hallucinate, to deceiue. 2. intr. To be deceived, suffer illusion, entertain false notions, blunder, mistake. Also, to have a hallucination or hallucinations. Now chiefly U.S.
1652Gaule Magastrom. 88 If prognosticators have so often hallucinated..about naturall effects. 1666G. Harvey Morb. Angl. ix. 75 Physicians do extreamly hallucinate in the discern of their causes. 1751Warburton On Pope III. 287 (Jod.) It is no wonder that the verbal criticks should a little hallucinate in this matter. 1840Carlyle Heroes v. (1858) 329 The man who cannot think and see; but only hallucinate, and missee the nature of the thing. 1847Webster, Hallucinate. 1930C. Spearman Creative Mind x. 135 A man hallucinated that the clothes of the girls ‘flew off them’. 1958E. Dundy Dud Avocado iii. vi. 270 My first thought was that I had gone stark raving mad..and that I was now hallucinating in a looney bin. 1964‘A. Cross’ In last Analysis iii. 31 Had such an idea crossed her mind, Kate would have decided that..she was ‘hallucinating’. 1973Publishers Weekly 19 Mar. 61/3 He describes her and is told, bluntly, that he is hallucinating. 3. trans. To affect with hallucination; to produce false impressions or perceptions in the mind of.
1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 117 Pascal himself was..so hallucinated with hypochondrism as to believe that he was always on the verge of an abyss. 1877Wraxall tr. Hugo's ‘Misérables’ i. iv, The scaffold..has something about it that hallucinates. Hence haˈllucinated, haˈllucinating ppl. adjs.
a1763Byrom Ep. to Friend (R.), Some poor hallucinating scribe's mistake. 1886Gurney Phantasms of Living I. 461 The hallucinated person..imagined [etc.]. 1892A. B. Bruce Apologetics Introd. 27 It may be mistaken hallucinated conviction. 1903E. Wharton Sanctuary ii. iv. 137 That hallucinating distinctness which belongs to the midnight vision. 1966New Statesman 18 Feb. 233/2 Jennifer Dawson writes about the surface pain of living—with hallucinating effect. |