delirious

Definition

Being in the state of delirium.

Etymology

From delirium + -ous; see also Latin delirus (“silly, doting, crazy”).

Example Sentences

• "⁠Or has the shock, so harshly given, […] made me that delirious man ⁠Whose fancy fuses old and new, ⁠And flashes into false and true, And mingles all without a plan?"
• "[…]the angelic form of a creature whose very existence was a gigantic balm of Gilead to the lacerated body of our hero, and, in a half delirious state of mind, he felt like leaping mountains to raise prostrate female forms, and to become blessed with hymeneal joys of the most glorious character; but, his imagination soon forsook him, and a raging fever, accompanied by the most violent deadly delirium, ensued, which lasted a fortnight."