delirious

comparative more delirious · superlative most delirious

1. medicineBeing in the state of delirium.

   ⁠Or has the shock, so harshly given, […] made me that delirious man ⁠Whose fancy fuses old and new, ⁠And flashes into false and true, And mingles all without a plan?

   1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XVI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 26

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   […]the angelic form of a creature whose very existence was a gigantic balm of Gilead to the lacerated body of our hero, and, in a half delirious state of mind, he felt like leaping mountains to raise prostrate female forms, and to become blessed with hymeneal joys of the most glorious character; but, his imagination soon forsook him, and a raging fever, accompanied by the most violent deadly delirium, ensued, which lasted a fortnight.

   1872, Simon Mohler Landis, The Social War, Chapter III: Deacon Stew raves at Lucinda's Love for Victor

2. Having uncontrolled excitement; ecstatic.

   delirious with joy