Meanings
plural delirations
- countableuncountableaberration of the mind; delirium
deliration or alienation of the understanding
1677, Joseph Mede, The Works of the Pious and Profoundly-learned Joseph Mede2 more examples
[…] 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 Directoryinsaneness 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
Origin
- Latindēlīrātio
- Englishdeliration
Learned borrowing from Latin dēlīrātio.
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