The popular delirium [of the French Revolution] at first caught his enthusiastic mind.
W. Irving.
The delirium of the preceding session (of Parliament).
Morley.
Delirium tremens (&?;). [L., trembling delirium] (Med.), a violent delirium induced by the excessive and prolonged use of intoxicating liquors. -- Traumatic delirium (Med.), a variety of delirium following injury.
Syn. -- Insanity; frenzy; madness; derangement; aberration; mania; lunacy; fury. See Insanity.
De*lit" (?), n. Delight. [Obs.] Chaucer.