deliration
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
deliration (countable and uncountable, plural delirations)
- aberration of the mind; delirium
- 1677, Joseph Mede, The Works of the Pious and Profoundly-learned Joseph Mede:
- deliration or alienation of the understanding
- 1673, Richard Baxter, Christian Directory:
- […] 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.
- 1768, Emanuel Swedenborg, Delights of Wisdom Concerning Conjugial Love:
- insaneness is understood the deliration of the mind from falses , and eminent deliration is the deliration of the mind from falsified truths
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “deliration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.