deliramentt (delirament)

[= Sp. Pg. It. deli ramen to, Of whose [Mohammed's] delirements further I proceed. Heywood , Hierarchy of Angels, p. 285. delirancyt (dē-lir'an-si), n . [ deliran ( t )+-cy.] The state of being delirious; delirium. Extasies of delirancy and dotage, that bring men first to strange fancies; then, to vent either nonsense or blasphemous and scurrilous extravagancies. Bp. Gauden, Sermon at Funeral of Bp. Brown rigg, p. 57. manner. Sweeps the Soul deliriously from life. Byron, Marino Faliero, IV. i. 260. deliriousne (dē-lir'i-us-nes), n. The state of being delirious; delirium. delirium (de-lir'i-um), n . [= F. délire = Sp. = Pg. It. delirio D. G. Dan. Sw. delirium, by long-continued and exhausting pain, or by inanition of the nervous system. 2. Violent excitement; exaggerated enthusiasm; mad rapture. The popular delirium caught his enthusiastic mind. Irving. 3. A hallucination or delusion; a creation of the imagination. The poet's hand, Imparting substance to an empty shade, Imposed on gay delirium for a truth. Cowper, Task, iv. 528. Delirium tremens, a disorder of the brain arising from inordinate and protracted use of ardent spirits, and therefore almost peculiar to drunkards. The delirium is a con stant symptom, but the tremor is not always conspicuously present. It is properly a disease of the nervous system. =Syn. 1. Madne , Frenzy, etc. See insanity.