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‖ vesania Path.|vɪˈseɪnɪə| [L. vēsānia, f. vēsānus mad, f. vē- not + sānus sane.] Mental derangement, esp. of a particular type (see quot. 1857).
[1693tr. Blancard's Phys. Dict. (ed. 2), Vesania, Madness from Love. c1793Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XI. 282 Order IV. Vesaniæ.] 1800tr. Cullen's Nosology 130 note, For who would consider..any other Hallucinatio or Morositas, which do not depend on the judgment, as a Vesania? 1820Good Nosology 278 Parr..makes Vesania the genus, and arranges melancholia, mania, and even oneirodynia as separate species under it. 1857Dunglison Dict. Med. Sci. 964/2 Vesania, madness; derangement of the intellectual and moral faculties, without coma or fever. |