Dictionary

deliration en · NOUN

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin dēlīrātio.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) aberration of the mind; delirium
   • […] if he speak the words of an oath in a strange language, thinking they signify something else, or if he spake in his sleep, or deliration, or distraction, it is no oath, and so not obligatory. 1673, Richard Baxter, Christian Directory:
   • insaneness is understood the deliration of the mind from falses , and eminent deliration is the deliration of the mind from falsified truths 1768, Emanuel Swedenborg, Delights of Wisdom Concerning Conjugial Love:
   • deliration or alienation of the understanding 1677, Joseph Mede, The Works of the Pious and Profoundly-learned Joseph Mede:

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Relateds

delirate