Definition of "deliration"

deliration or alienation of the understanding

1677, Joseph Mede, The Works of the Pious and Profoundly-learned Joseph Mede

[…] if he speak the words of an oath in a strange language, thinking they signify something else, or if he spake in his sleep, or deliration, or distraction, it is no oath, and so not obligatory.

1673, Richard Baxter, Christian Directory

insaneness is understood the deliration of the mind from falses , and eminent deliration is the deliration of the mind from falsified truths

1768, Emanuel Swedenborg, Delights of Wisdom Concerning Conjugial Love