单词 | delire |
释义 | delirev. rare after 17th cent. ΘΚΠ 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.)).] ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < v.?a1475 |
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