Definition of "delirious"
adjective
comparative more delirious, superlative most delirious
(medicine) Being in the state of delirium.
Quotations
Or has the shock, so harshly given,[…] made me that delirious manWhose fancy fuses old and new,And flashes into false and true,And mingles all without a plan?
1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], canto XVI, page 26
[…] 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