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delirious, a.|dɪˈlɪrɪəs|
[f. L. dēlīri-um + -ous.]
1. Affected with delirium, esp. as a result or symptom of disease; wandering in mind, light-headed, temporarily insane.
1706Swift Death of Partridge, The people..said, he had been for some time delirious; but when I saw him, he had his understanding as well as ever I knew. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 153 ⁋11 He caught a fever..of which he died delirious on the third day. 1804Abernethy Surg. Obs. 175 He had gradually become delirious, and..could scarcely be kept in bed. 1871Sir T. Watson Princ. Physic (ed. 5) I. xviii. 350 The patient, complaining probably of his head, becomes all at once and furiously delirious.
b. Belonging to or characteristic of delirium.
1703J. Logan in Pa. Hist. Soc. Mem. IX. 188 In what he has wrote to-day one paragraph may appear almost delirious. 1809Med. Jrnl. XXI. 435 March 25th..The whole of this day he has talked quite incoherently..March 26th. The same delirious manner has continued all this day. 1874Carpenter Ment. Phys. i. i. §7 (1879) 8 The delirious ravings of Intoxication or of Fever.
2. transf. and fig.
a. Characterized by wild excitement or symptoms resembling those of delirium; frantic, crazed, ‘mad’.
1791Cowper Iliad xv. 156 Frantic, delirious! thou art lost for ever! 1829I. Taylor Enthus. iv. (1867) 77 The delirious bigot who burns with ambition to render himself the enemy..of the Church. 1855G. Brimley Ess., Tennyson 76 Snatches of song that make the world delirious with delight.
b. Of things, actions, etc.
1599Broughton's Lett. iii. 13 You..charge the High commission of Atheisme, for calling you to account for your delirious doctrine. 1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. lxx, How the giant element From rock to rock leaps with delirious bound. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. (1865) I. ii. vi. 87 The delirious screech..of a railway train. |