deliration

English

Etymology

Latin dēlīrātio.

Noun

deliration (countable and uncountable, plural delirations)

aberration of the mind; delirium
(Can we find and add a quotation of J. Motley to this entry?)
- Mede
  deliration or alienation of the understanding
- Richard Baxter
  […] 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.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 deliration in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

orlandiite, redilation

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