deliration

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin dēlīrātio.

Noun

deliration (countable and uncountable, plural delirations)

1. 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

• delirate

References

• “deliration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• redilation, orlandiite, loratidine