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Disturbed state of mind
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delirium
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from Latin delirium "madness," from deliriare "be crazy, rave," literally "go off the furrow," a plowing metaphor, from phrase de lire , from de "off, away" (see de- ) + lira "furrow, earth thrown up between two furrows," from PIE *leis- (1) "track, ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Delirium is a common and severe neuropsychiatric syndrome. Delirium may also refer to:
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A temporary mental state with a sudden onset, usually reversible, including symptoms of confusion, inability to concentrate, disorientation, anxiety, and sometimes hallucinations. Causes can include dehydration, drug intoxication, and severe infection. ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES delirium tremens EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The win brought on delirium among the fans. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A warehouse for the furnishings of consumer delirium . ▪ And in the delirium of recognising her power ...
Usage examples of delirium.
But Cupples--from whose veins alcohol had expelled the blood, whose skull was a Circean cup of hurtful spells--would not delirium follow for him?
Pastor Crenshaw showed signs of mild delirium or mental breakdown, even physical exhaustion.
Ives, Denbigh was in a state of delirium from the height of his fever, and the apprehensions of his friends were renewed with additional force.
In her delirium, she had relived her time with Andre and had run from him, trying to fnd a saviour--whom she now knew was Simon.
All he cared about now was getting past the guards before delirium set in.
A less zealous, optimistic and dogged individual than he would not have even supposed that, so years after the Hearts had emigrated east from Vegas, that city of all American cities phantasmagoric and insubstantial as a delirium hallucination, there could be any trace, any vestigial memory of them.
Her delirium lasted three days, and as soon as she got back her reason she charged her young friend to tell me that she was sure to get well if I promised to keep to my word, and to carry her off as soon as her health would allow.
Perhaps it was the delirium I suffered in Martinico, occasioned by the fever.
These neuralgic pains fly along the tracks of nerves to different organs, and capriciously dart from point to point with marvelous celerity, producing nausea, headache, and sometimes delirium.
There are wandering pains in the body and sometimes a passive delirium exists.
The conditions in which bromides are most frequently used are insomnia, epilepsy, whooping-cough, delirium tremens, asthma, migraine, laryngismus stridulus, the symptoms often attendant upon the climacteric in women, hysteria, neuralgia, certain nervous disorders of the heart, strychnine poisoning, nymphomania and spermatorrhoea.
Raskolnikov that this senseless delirium echoed so sadly and tormentingly in his memory, that the impression of these feverish dreams refused to go away for so long.
Extreme pain and uremic poisoning had resulted in delirium and convulsions.
I thought I had cured her, but on the following day the frenzy went up to the brain, and in her delirium she pronounced at random Greek and Latin words without any meaning, and then no doubt whatever was entertained of her being possessed of the evil spirit.
She was still at the asylum, and in her moments of delirium she did nothing but utter my name with curses.