delirIum

[Lat., from delirus crazy, foolish, from deliro =(1) to go out of the way, (2) to be crazy or foolish: de -away, from, and lira a furrow.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. Lit.: In the same sense as II. 1323 3. To hand over, to transfer, to commit. "Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents."-Matt. xxv. 22. 4. To give up, to surrender, to yield, to resign. (Generally followed by up .) over. "Are the cities, that I got with wounds, Delivered up again with peaceful words?" asm; rapture. "Too well the Impostor nursed Her soul's delirium." Moore: Veiled Prophet of Khor as san. II. Med .: Increased ideation ranging from simple confusion of thought to fixed delusion, accompanied by incoherence, restle ne , and frequently combined with some amount of unconsciousne , deepening at times into coma. It often occurs in the course of general specific diseases, in pneumonia, erysipelas, gout, acute mania, alcoholic poisoning as delirium tremens (q. v.), and as a consequence of nervous exhaustion from mental overwork.