delirancy
English
Noun
delirancy (uncountable)
- (obsolete) delirium
- 1659, John Gauden, The Tears, Sighs, Complaints, and Prayers of the Church of England, Royston, page 208.
- a Manichean dotage and delirancy seizeth upon them, before ever they are resolved
- 2010, Stephen R. Donaldson, Against All Things Ending, Penguin Books, page 50.
- Will you compound ruin with delirancy?
- 1659, John Gauden, The Tears, Sighs, Complaints, and Prayers of the Church of England, Royston, page 208.
Related terms
- delirant adjective
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for delirancy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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