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单词 delire
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delirev.

Brit. /dᵻˈlɪə/, U.S. /dəˈlɪ(ə)r/
Forms: late Middle English (1500s Scottish) delyre, 1600s 1900s– delire.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French delirer.
Etymology: < Middle French delirer to go astray (late 13th cent. in Old French and late 15th cent. in Middle French in apparently isolated attestations), to act or speak as if affected by delirium (1525; French délirer ) < classical Latin dēlīrāre to be deranged, mad, out of one's mind, originally to go out of the furrow, to deviate from the straight < dē- de- prefix + līra ridge, furrow, in ploughing (see lirate adj.). Probably also influenced by Italian delirare (a1321; compare quot. 1600 for deliring adj. at Derivatives). Compare later deleerit adj.Compare also Spanish delirar (1499), Portuguese delirar (1651).
rare after 17th cent.
1. intransitive. To go astray, esp. morally; to sin; to turn aside from what is expected or desired. Obsolete.
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > erring > [verb (intransitive)]
misfareeOE
failc1290
stumblec1325
errc1374
crookc1380
miscarryc1390
swervea1400
delire?a1475
pervertc1475
misguide1480
prevaricate1582
society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > act wrongly or immorally [verb (intransitive)] > err or go wrong or astray
misfareeOE
wanderc897
dwelec900
miswendOE
misfereOE
misnimc1225
failc1290
to go willa1300
misgoc1300
misstepc1300
errc1315
strayc1325
folly1357
wryc1369
crookc1380
miscarryc1390
ravec1390
astray1393
forloinc1400
delire?a1475
to go wrong?1507
to tread the shoe awrya1542
swerve1576
prevaricate1582
tread awrya1625
the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [verb (intransitive)] > be delirious or rave
ravea1325
varya1525
wanderc1540
delire1575
to speak bandog and Bedlam1600
taver1808
?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 193 (MED) God wyl be vengyd on man..þat wyl nevyr be shrevyn but evyr more doth delyre.
1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus ii. f. 23v Quhat causit the be sa peirt for to delyre Fra Venus Court, or thairfra for to gyre?
1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (ii. 5) 536 He repents not as man does, for he cannot delire and erre as man does.
2. intransitive. To act or speak in an absurd, deluded, or irrational manner. [In quot. 1986 translating French délire (1986 in the passage translated; in the original text in poetic juxtaposition with lire to read (11th cent. in Old French; < classical Latin legere : see lection n.)).]
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1600 [implied in: tr. T. Garzoni Hosp. Incurable Fooles 10 Franticke, and deliring Fooles..who..swarue from al sense. (at Derivatives)].
1632 F. Quarles Divine Fancies iv. xv. 168 How fresh blood dotes! O how green Youth delires!
1675 R. Burthogge Cavsa Dei 196 He delires, and is out of his Wits, that would preferr it [sc. moonlight] before the Sun by Day.
1986 B. Godard tr. N. Brossard Lovhers (1987) 17 I don't stop reading/deliring.

Derivatives

deˈliring adj. that acts or speaks absurdly, deludedly, or irrationally.In quot. 1997 with reference to the work of Nicole Brossard: see note at sense 2.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > delirious or raving
wedingc725
lighta1500
light-headeda1500
ravinga1525
raving mad1541
frenetical1548
idle1548
delirant1600
deliring1600
frenetic1609
phrenitic1649
delirous1656
delirious1670
deliriate1689
rambling1700
straggle-brained1725
allochoos1811
ravers1938
1600 tr. T. Garzoni Hosp. Incurable Fooles 10 Franticke, and deliring [It. deliranti] Fooles..who..swarue from al sense.
1650 H. Parker Let. Due Censure J. Lilburne 9 Surely you did direct these futilous, empty umbrages of reason either to sway wiser judgments, or onely to infect, and trump the ruder multitude: if the first, you render your self a very deliring man notwithstanding all your reading of the Law.
1997 S. L. Holbrook Poetics Transl. 20th-cent. Writing (Ph.D. diss., Univ. Calgary) 55 The deliring figure in this novel is Maude Laures.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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