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▪ I. † folie, v. Obs.—1 = foliate v. 5, folio v.
1697Sec. Narrat. Proc. Turners Hall 36 Errata, That sheet is wrong Folied, which correct thus, p. 17, 18, 19. ▪ II. ‖ folie, n.|fɔli| [Fr.; see folly.] Madness, insanity, mania. Chiefly in various pathological terms (see quots.).
1803Edin. Rev. II. 163 The maniac appears perfectly composed, makes the best and most correct answers to the questions put to him; but, if set at liberty, immediately becomes furious. This kind of derangement..is what is vulgarly called folie raisonnante. 1880Encycl. Brit. XIII. 109/2 To this condition foreign authorities have applied the term folie circulaire... After intervals of comparative sanity, the patient manifests symptoms which run their course through the prodromal, the acute, and the demented stages, on again to recovery. 1890Billings Med. Dict., Folie du doute, doubting insanity. Ibid., Folie des grandeurs, delirium of grandeur. 1913Dorland Med. Dict. (ed. 7), Folie à deux, communicated insanity. 1914W. J. Locke Jaffery viii, This is absurd. It's megalomania—la folie des grandeurs. 1915A. Huxley Let. Oct. (1969) 80 A new growing country, swelled with its own pride, filled by its growing pains with an immense folie de grandeur. 1923― On Margin 181 The baroque folie de grandeur. 1960Guardian 8 July 13/6 Friedrich Grunwald..denied having ‘folie de grandeur’—being a big head who has gone round the bend. 1961Listener 24 Aug. 290/2 You..are afflicted with folie de doute (was it really 10,000,000 cells per minute, or 10,000, and if so, why?). 1962Sci. Amer. Aug. 66/3 In twins, as in other pairs of individuals who are emotionally close to each other, the condition known as folie à deux has been commonly observed. The two partners tend to develop shared delusions and symptoms. 1962John o' London's 27 Sept. 307/4 A brilliantly observed clinical study of the folie à deux indulged in by a pair of chronic fantasists. ▪ III. folie obs. form of folly. |