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noun

Delirium n.

(Med.) A state in which the thoughts, expressions, and actions are wild, irregular, and incoherent; mental aberration; a roving or wandering of the mind, usually dependent on a fever or some other disease, and so distinguished from mania, or madness.

Strong excitement; wild enthusiasm; madness. "The popular delirium (of the French Revolution) at first caught his enthusiastic mind." "The delirium of the preceding session (of Parliament)."

Delirium tremens. (Med.), a violent delirium induced by the excessive and prolonged use of intoxicating liquors.

Traumatic delirium (Med.), a variety of delirium following injury.

Synonyms: Insanity; frenzy; madness; derangement; aberration; mania; lunacy; fury. See Insanity.

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"Delirium" Quotes from Famous Books

... at him as he turned his blue eyes upon her in a kind of delirium of conviction. He hurried on as their car rattled through ...

— In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White

... scene. The Marie of his sleep resisted far less than the living Marie those adoring looks, those tender entreaties, those adroit silences, those voluptuous solicitations, those false generosities, which render the first moments of a passion so completely ardent, and shed into the soul a fresh delirium at each ...

— Maitre Cornelius • Honore de Balzac

... For some time he had been ill of dysentery and now was "not able to hould out any longer".[684] He was cared for at the house of a Mr. Pate, in Gloucester county, but his condition soon became worse.[685] His mind, probably wandering in delirium, dwelt upon the perils of his situation. Often he would enquire if the guard around the house was strong, or whether the King's troops had arrived. Death came before the end of October.[686] Bacon's place of burial has never been discovered. ...

— Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 • Thomas J. Wertenbaker

... diseases as well as mere drunkenness. In Delirium Tremens there is an acute delirium, with confusion, excitement and auditory and visual hallucinations of all kinds. The latter symptom is so prominent as to give the reason for the popular name of the "snakes." In alcoholic hallucinosis the ...

— The Foundations of Personality • Abraham Myerson

... except the Public Haranguer, haranguing on barrel-head, in leading article; or getting himself aggregated into a National Parliament to harangue. And for about four months all France, and to a great degree all Europe, rough-ridden by every species of delirium, except happily the murderous for most part, was a weltering mob, presided over by M. de Lamartine, at the Hotel-de-Ville; a most eloquent fair-spoken literary gentleman, whom thoughtless persons took for a prophet, priest and heaven-sent evangelist, and ...

— Latter-Day Pamphlets • Thomas Carlyle

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