delirious

Etymology

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

adj

  1. (medicine) Being in the state of delirium.
    […]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. 1872, Simon Mohler Landis, The Social War, Chapter III: Deacon Stew raves at Lucinda's Love for Victor
  2. Having uncontrolled excitement; ecstatic.

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