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Latin dēlīrātio.

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deliration (countable and uncountable, plural delirations)

  1. aberration of the mind; delirium
    • 1677, Joseph Mede, The Works of the Pious and Profoundly-learned Joseph Mede:
      deliration or alienation of the understanding
    • 1673, Richard Baxter, Christian Directory:
      [] if he speak the words of an oath in a strange language, thinking they signify something else, or if he spake in his sleep, or deliration, or distraction, it is no oath, and so not obligatory.
    • 1768, Emanuel Swedenborg, Delights of Wisdom Concerning Conjugial Love:
      insaneness is understood the deliration of the mind from falses , and eminent deliration is the deliration of the mind from falsified truths

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