单词 | delirium |
释义 | deliriumn. 1. Medicine. A disordered state of mind or consciousness; (in later use) spec. an acute, transient condition associated with fever, intoxication with alcohol or drugs, and various other physical disorders, typically characterized by symptoms such as confusion, disorientation, agitation, hallucinations, and disturbances of thought, memory, and mood. Also: an instance or episode of this. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > delirium or raving wood dreameOE mazec1300 paraphrenesisa1398 ravinga1398 deliramentc1450 idleness1535 delirium1563 randing1583 calenture1593 deliration1598 taveringa1599 ravery1599 delirement1613 debacchation1633 delirancy1645 deliry1657 deliriousness1671 paraphrenitis1683 paraphrosyne1684 deliracy1689 delirousness1694 paracope1749 paraphora1749 wandering1836 paralerema1848 paraleresis1857 paraphronesis1857 rambling1897 1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. ii. iii. vii. f. 40v Delyrium or alienation of the mynde is a motion deprauate of the principall facultie: takynge hys begynnynge of euill fumes ascending to the head. 1593 S. Kellwaye Defensatiue against Plague iii. ii. f. 39v The signes when one is infected are these, first hee is taken with a hoate feauer, and sometime with a delirium, great paine in the back, furring and stopping of the nose, [etc.]. 1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon iii. xii. 648 His Chest was much less obstructed, and his Deliriums had far longer intervals than before. 1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 357 The Deliria and Melancholic Fevers are indicated by this Pulse. 1759 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful (ed. 2) Introd. 13 Opium is pleasing to Turks, on account of the agreeable delirium it produces. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xi. 145 In a raging fever accompanied with delirium. 1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. ii. i. 182 Occasionally the delirium [in typhus] is violent and maniacal,..but much more commonly it is of the low muttering kind, known by the name of ‘typhomania’. 1915 Med. Rec. 31 July 188/2 Delirium may be severe or mild, but in either type it is a condition of short duration. 1964 C. Mackenzie My Life & Times III. 280 The delirium was not violent and consisted mostly in seeing small heads on legs coming up from the floor on either side of my bed. 2006 A. Economou et al. in A. C. Papanicolaou Amnesias iv. 98 A delirium superimposed on a preexisting dementia can give rise to a severe confusional state. 2. Irrational, deluded, or absurd thought, speech, or behaviour; delusion, absurdity. Also: an absurd, irrational, or deluded belief or remark. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun] wantonnessc1405 absurdity1529 monstruousness1545 impertinency1573 ridiculousness1573 monstrousness1574 absurd1581 absurdness1582 incongruity1597 fancy1598 delirium1599 monstruosity1604 absurdum1606 foppishness1611 impertinence1616 nonsense1630 impertinentness1645 irrationality1647 monstrosity1651 nonsensicality1652 ridicule1668 ridicule1672 nonsensicalness1674 maggotry1706 preposterousness1727 zanyship1766 ridiculosity1773 drollness1823 stultification1832 nonsensity1834 farcicality1849 cockeyedness1858 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun] > in conduct harlotryc1384 May game1571 scogginism1593 buffianism1596 delirium1599 fooling1602 scoggery1602 buffoonism1611 nonsense1612 scurrility1614 buffoonery1621 buffooninga1672 buffoon1780 pantomime1781 zanyism1823 harlequinade1828 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun] > instance of follyc1300 absurditya1525 mumpsimus1531 trim-tram1533 foppery1546 ridicle1570 fangle1583 delirium1599 monstruosity1601 adox1606 absurd1610 extravagancy1625 incongruitya1626 monstrosity1639 extravagant1644 extravagance1650 ridiculea1658 fadoodlea1670 ridiculous1674 irrationalitya1680 ridiculosity1773 whimsy-whamsy1807 absurdism1815 nonsensity1834 nonsensical1842 nonsensicalitya1850 fandango1856 fandangle1880 bollock1919 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun] > instance of flim-flam1546 delirium1599 bull1640 nonsense1646 fandango1841 fiddlededee1843 flapdoodle1878 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > error in belief or opinion > [noun] misthoughtc1300 error1340 vanityc1386 err1509 delirium1599 unsoundnessa1600 misknowing1616 errancy1623 pseudodoxy1651 apophenia1999 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > error in belief or opinion > [noun] > instance of error1340 misbeliefa1387 misopinion1489 delusion1552 fallacy1590 delirium1599 pseudodox1601 ignotion1647 by-opinion1670 night-philosophy1677 sphalm1715 pseudo-idea1863 1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered xii. 42 Neither is it your strange diuinitie that procures our indignation against you, because wee know it is but the franticke delirium of one, whose pride hath made him ϕρεναπατᾶν [deceive]. 1650 J. Howell tr. A. Giraffi Exact Hist. Late Revol. Naples ix. 174 He had broken out into a thousand delirium's and fooleries. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 125. ⁋10 Any Free-thinker whom they shall find publishing his Deliriums. 1893 A. Werner tr. L. H. J. Lamberts-Hurrelbrinck In Little Republic in tr. Humour of Holland 163 Everything he had seen and heard was sheer nonsense and delirium, and so he had been obliged to return as he came. 1953 D. Thomas Let. 22 June in Sel. Lett. (1966) 408 The woman next to me was stonedeaf so I spoke to her all the way more..and more wildly.., and she unheard all my delirium with a smile. 2014 H. C. G. Johnsen New Nat. Resource xi. 239 The social process somehow sorts out what is knowledge in relation to lies, fantasies, deliriums or meaninglessness. 3. A state or condition of wild emotion or excitement, (now) esp. extreme happiness or enthusiasm; frenzied activity or behaviour. Also: a fit or bout of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > extravagant or rapturous excitement > [noun] woodnessc1000 excess1423 inebriation1526 madness1595 deliration1603 raptery1640 mania1689 intoxication1712 ebriety1751 delirium1757 nympholepsy1776 inebriety1786 orgiasm1840 raptus1845 ebriosity1854 slap-happiness1958 1757 C. Lennox tr. L. A. de La Beaumelle Mem. for Hist. Madame Maintenon I. iii. iii. 240 A lady who was nearly related to mademoiselle de la Valliere, awakened in her those pious sentiments which had been lost in the delirium of love. 1797 E. Burke Three Mem. French Affairs 71 The delirium of a low, drunken alehouse-club. 1836 W. Irving Astoria II. 225 He jumped up, shouted, clapped his hands, and danced in a delirium of joy, until he upset the canoe. 1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such xiv. 254 The gorgeous delirium of gladiatorial shows. 1932 A. Huxley Brave New World v. 97 The President leaned forward and, with a touch, released a delirium of cymbals and blown brass, a fever of tom-tomming. 2014 Daily Tel. 7 Feb. 25/1 A thousand lucky patrons duly obliged, yelling at the top of their voices, waving arms in the air, caught in a kind of collective delirium at the very notion of getting up close and personal with a pop legend. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1563 |
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