Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Delirious.

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  • adjective obsolete Delirious.

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  • adjective obsolete Delirious.

Etymologies

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Latin dēlīrāns, dēlīrantis, present participle of dēlīrō. See delirium.

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Examples

  • On est tellement crevé mais excité qu'on se mate un film bollywoodien en delirant sur tout et n'importe quoi jusqu'a ce que * Mokona* nous appelle.

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008

  • How mad they are, how furious, and upon small occasions, rash and inconsiderate in their proceedings, how they dote, every page almost will witness, — — — delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Faut que j'pense a vous mettre la foto d'mon chat qui fait l'mort c delirant!

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2005

  • Probably he did it, either in flattery to the tyrant, or else that he might throw off from himself both the trouble and the odium that might arise upon the occasion of condemning Jesus, whom he judged to be an innocent man, and whom in some measure he pitied, looking upon him as a sort of a delirant person, one not very well in his wits: which opinion also

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • Some that are so esteemed, indeed, never pretended unto any sobriety, but were mere effects of delirant [raving] imaginations; yet did even they also, one way or other, derive from an hatred unto the person of

    Christologia 1616-1683 1965

  • For to oppose him who divided the person of Christ into two, he confounded his natures into one — his delirant folly being confirmed by that goodly assembly, the second at Ephesus.

    Christologia 1616-1683 1965

  • [178] "Hic est Arthur de quo Britonum nugæ hodieque delirant, dignus plane quod non fallaces somniarent fabulæ, sed veraces prædicarent historiæ."

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • In the mean time, the Grecian army receives loss on loss, and is half destroy’d by a pestilence into the bargain: Quicquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.

    Dedication Vergil 1909

  • A feature of the times was the remarkably personal character of the wars, and the apparent utter indifference to humble popular interests; _Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi; _ stress is laid upon this point by the democratic philosopher Lao-tsz, who, however, in his book (be it genuine or not), is wise enough never to name a person or place; probably that prudence saved it from the flames in 213 B.C.

    Ancient China Simplified Edward Harper Parker 1887

  • Certainly German progress shows that the Germans can have no ground to quote: "Quicquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi," of their Emperor.

    Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View Price Collier 1886

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