deliriousadj.

1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered iii. 13 You..charge the High commission of Atheisme, for calling you to account for your delirious doctrine.

1668 J. Howe Blessedness of Righteous 212 Turn thy thoughts hither then, and consider, what is there done upon thy soul, by the Gospel, to attemper and conform it to God?.. Thou art but in a delirious dream till thou seriously bethinkest thy self of this.

1751 J. Brown Ess. Characteristics xii. 312 The delirious flights of an unreined imagination.

1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV lxx. 38 How the giant element From rock to rock leaps with delirious bound.

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. ii. vi. 122 The delirious screech..of a railway train.

1939 H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn (1961) 99 The before-dinner atmosphere, the blends of patchouli, warm pitchblende, iced electricity, sugared sweat and powdered urine drives one on to a fever of delirious expectancy.

2006 Time Out N.Y. 11 May 105/1 Nothing else is as tantalizing as the movie's opening two minutes, which drops viewers into a delirious melee of shaky-cam confusion and cryptic remarks.

1673 J. Hickes Disc. Excellency of Heavenly Substance 53 They think..that too much Religion hath made them delirious.

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xv. 156 Frantic, delirious! thou art lost for ever!

1855 G. Brimley Ess. (1858) i. 78 Snatches of song that make the world delirious with delight.

1927 Ogden Standard-Examiner (Ogden City, Utah) 14 Dec. 1/7 (headline) Crowd goes delirious with relief and joy when America's ambassador of good will arrives safely.

2014 Sports Illustr. 3 Mar. 64/1 Star forward Neymar..was brilliant once again, adding his fourth goal of the tournament just before halftime and Lambeau-leaping into the delirious crowd afterward.

1665 M. Nedham Medela Medicinæ ix. 418 He who observes in these daies, almost in every Fever, yea and in Agues, what little Spasms,..Rigors, Torpors, drowsie and delirious Symptoms, and the like distempers incident to the Nervous parts..will easily grant, that Fevers do for the most part settle in the liquor of the Brain.

1799 J. M. Adair Ess. Regimen xii. 152 When, by increase of disease and of danger, they fall into a delirious or an insensible state, they become the immediate objects of pity and unceasing care.

1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. i. i. §7. 8 The delirious ravings of Intoxication or of Fever.

1969 L. P. Ullmann & L. Krasner Psychol. Approach Abnormal Behavior ii. xxi. 417/1 A person may gradually progress from hypomania to delirious mania over time.

2018 T. F. Elliott & S. L. Stephenson in Mushrooms Southeast 21 Symptoms frequently include delirious and manic behaviors.

1670 Acct. Causes Distempers 22 A Gentlewoman, whose Husband after a Drunken Bout was thrown into a Fever, and being delirious, upon her giving him something to drink, he hit her Left Breast with his Hand.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 153. ⁋11 He caught a fever..of which he died delirious on the third day.

1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 175 He had gradually become delirious, and..could scarcely be kept in bed.

1932 H. H. Price Perception vi. 147 The celebrated case of the delirious man who ‘sees a pink rat’.

2011 F. M. Barken Out of Pract. v. 103 That night, delirious with fever, he lay in bed and recited the sonnets and other works of Shakespeare in what seemed to be perfect iambic pentameter.