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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Raving; delirious.

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Examples

  • I tried to stop her, but she would tork, and was what you might call delirous-like.

    The Opal Serpent Fergus Hume 1895

  • I took an anti-histamine after midnight, partly because I had some hayfever and partly to help me sleep, but by five I was all kind of delirous feeling and dizzy.

    sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2001

  • Good follow-up scene of Roslin tending to his injury only to react (terrific acting again by Mary McDonnell) to Baltar's delirous rant about his freedom from guilt for his terrible crime (he finally admits to her giving the access codes to the defense mainframe for the Colonies to Six and hence being responsible for the deaths of billions of humans).

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  • Good follow-up scene of Roslin tending to his injury only to react (terrific acting again by Mary McDonnell) to Baltar's delirous rant about his freedom from guilt for his terrible crime (he finally admits to her giving the access codes to the defense mainframe for the Colonies to Six and hence being responsible for the deaths of billions of humans).

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  • That this all involves breaking up his nephews current engagement, impersonating South American explorers, breaking into English country houses belong to old school chums and several plaster busts makes perfect sense once you enter the delirous world that Wodehouse has created.

    Uncle Dynamite - P.G. Wodehouse (1948) JB 2007

  • You must have known, from the delirous words of my illness, of which you have told me, that life would be a worthless thing to me.

    Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick Mrs. William T. Savage

  • "I'm afraid he's delirous," she said, when he reached her side.

    The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West Harry Leon Wilson 1903

  • I do spoze he wuz half delirous with seein 'too much.

    Samantha at the World's Fair Marietta Holley 1881

  • In that delirous pursuit, they all speak the same language, and appear to run down the same road to ruin.

    John B. Wyeth's Oregon, or a Short History of a Long Journey John Bound 1833

  • All these articles, without being striking from their size, and other accessory qualities to be remarked in costly specimens, incontestably present a rich fund of instruction to persons delirous of fathoming science, by multiplying the points of view under which mineral productions may be observed.

    Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798

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