deliration

[del-uh-rey-shuhn]

noun

Archaic.

1. mental derangement; raving; delirium.

Word History and Origins

Origin of deliration¹

1590–1600; < Latin dēlīrātiōn- (stem of dēlīrātiō ) folly, equivalent to dēlīr ( āre ) to be silly, literally, go out of the furrow ( dē- de- + līr ( a ) furrow + -āre infinitive ending) + -ātiōn- -ation

Example Sentences

The rule, Sic vos non vobis, never altogether to be got rid of in men's Industry, now presses with such incubus weight, that Industry must shake it off, or utterly be strangled under it; and, alas, can as yet but gasp and rave, and aimlessly struggle, like one in the final deliration.

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Distraction surely, incipience of the "final deliration" enters upon the poor old English Formulism that has called itself for some two centuries a Church.

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Their immense and sandy diffuseness is like the prairie, or the desert, and their incongruities are like the last deliration.

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It was on Saturday night that he, drawing his last life-breaths, gave up the ghost there;—leaving a world, which would never go to his mind, now broken out, seemingly, into deliration and the culbute generale.

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