Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Mental aberration; delirium; dementation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Aberration of mind; delirium.

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  • noun aberration of the mind; delirium

Etymologies

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Latin deliratio.

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Examples

  • Caucus challenges Vavi to point out any �untouchable deadwood� within the cabinet and provide evidence of any deliration of duty by any deceased or current serving minister.

    ANC Caucus Statement On Zwelinzima Vavi the ANC Parliamentary Caucus 2007

  • Caucus challenges Vavi to point out any "untouchable deadwood" within the cabinet and provide evidence of any deliration of duty by any deceased or current serving minister.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • Their immense and sandy diffuseness is like the prairie or the desert, and their incongruities are like the last deliration.

    Representative Men 2006

  • The rule, Sic vos non vobis, never altogether to be got rid of in men’s Industry, now presses with such incubus weight, that Industry must shake it off, or utterly be strangled under it; and, alas, can as yet but gasp and rave, and aimlessly struggle, like one in the final deliration.

    Paras. 20-39 1909

  • Distraction surely, incipience of the “final deliration” enters upon the poor old English Formulism that has called itself for some two centuries a Church.

    The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883

  • Their immense and sandy diffuseness is like the prairie, or the desert, and their incongruities are like the last deliration.

    Representative Man (1850) 1850

  • Their immense and sandy diffuseness is like the prairie, or the desert, and their incongruities are like the last deliration.

    Representative Men Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842

  • It was on Saturday night that he, drawing his last life-breaths, gave up the ghost there; -- leaving a world, which would never go to his mind, now broken out, seemingly, into deliration and the culbute generale.

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Distraction surely, incipience of the "final deliration" enters upon the poor old English Formulism that has called itself for some two centuries a Church.

    The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Thomas Carlyle 1838

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