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deliration|dɛlɪˈreɪʃən|
[ad. L. dēlīrātiōn-em, n. of action from dēlīrāre: see delire v.]
1. Delirium, aberration of mind; frenzy, madness.
1600Hosp. Inc. Fooles 9 Deliration is oftentimes a Symptome..of an feuer. Ibid. 10 Frensie being a far more violent infirmitie than deliration or dotage. 1668H. More Div. Dial. ii. xiv. (1713) 132 As idely as those that pill Straws or tie knots on Rushes in a fit of Deliration or Lunacy. 1840Carlyle Heroes v. (1858) 323 An earnestness..which..drove him into the strangest incoherences, almost delirations. 1855A. Manning O. Chelsea Bun-house iii. 45 Her Deliration incessantly finding Vent in an incoherent Babble.
†b. A rendering delirious or temporarily insane.
1656H. More Enthus. Tri. (1712) 19 The Effect is the deliration of the party after he awakes, for he takes his Dreams for..real Transactions.
2. fig. Wildly absurd behaviour or speech, as if arising from aberration of mind.
1603Harsnet Pop. Impost. 27 What a Deliration is this in our graue, learned and famous College of..Physicians! 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 848 The many atheistick hallucinations or delirations concerning it [cogitation]. 1821New Monthly Mag. II. 123 The bombastic deliration of Lee's tragedy. 1860Emerson Cond. Life, Worship 122 In creeds never was such levity: witness..the periodic ‘revivals’..the deliration of rappings. |