单词 | ravery |
释义 | raveryn. Originally and chiefly Scottish. Now rare. As a count noun: = raving n.1 2. Also as a mass noun: delirium, madness; wild, irrational, or incoherent speech or declamation (cf. raving n.1 1). 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 the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > unhealthy excitement > [noun] > wild or delirious behaviour ravery1599 1599 A. Hume Hymnes Ep. to Rdr. sig. A3v To rehearse some fabulos faits of Palmerine, Amadis, or other such like raueries. 1627 P. Hay Advt. Subj. Scotl. 105 I doe not doubt, but this New Reason, which I doe put in from the Mysterie of the Number, will bee thought of manie a Capritch, or Raverie of a Phantasticke Braine. 1634 ‘Philiatreus’ Gen. Pract. Med. sig. A3 Ravery designes the braine to bee distempered. 1640 W. Vaughan Church Militant 341 Fly, Readers, fly, and shunne such Baites as these, Which though they for a time the Sences please, At last they breed a Soule-sick ravery, Which will from Truth distast your Memory. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 105 If the King have sense enough not to give credit to all their raveries. 1703 J. Brown Stone returning upon Him that roll'd It 3 I have no mind to trudge after him through his many pitifull Raveries. 1721 R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. (1828) III. 348 The raveries and blasphemies emitted by John Gib. 1754 S. Fielding & J. Collier Cry II. iii. x. 143 Portia should not be indulged in such mad raveries. 1851 H. Schliemann Jrnl. 1 Nov. in S. H. Weber Schliemann's First Visit to Amer. (1942) 69 I caught it [sc. a fever] on the 4th October..from the 6th to the 20th I was lying in continual ravery. 1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia Ravary, a violent mad fit of passion, attended with loud vociferation. 1958 Mearns Leader 14 Feb. Yon raiverie aboot a young man's fancy turnin' lichtly tae thochts o' love. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1599 |
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