delirium

Dart delirium was growing among Giants fans after the quarterback threw for three touchdowns and had a lofty passer rating of 134.2 in a 28-20 season-opening win over Dallas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Now, imagine all that delirium, sign-waving and call-in voting was in service of pushing Art Garfunkel to the pinnacle of the premier music video countdown.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026

There was delirium when they took an early lead against Germany in their opening game, but it would end in humiliation as the European giants eventually stuck seven past them.

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026

The show once referenced a fast-food item, called the Ribwich, that drives Homer to delirium.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 29, 2026

They were the promoters of the bloody carnival that plunged Macondo into delirium for three days and whose only lasting consequence was having given Aureliano Segundo the opportunity to meet Fernanda del Carpio.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The 4th century church father Jerome called them "deliria."

From Time Magazine Archive

Before Breuer and Janet, the great psychiatrist Leuret expressed the opinion that even for the deliria of the insane, if we only understood how to interpret them, a meaning could be found.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

If stupor be a psychobiological reaction, it should occur, occasionally, in organic conditions just as the deliria of typhoid fever may contain many psychogenic elements.

From Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by John T. (John Thompson) MacCurdy

Pronounced mental disorder occurs rarely in tuberculosis, according to Ziehen, and leads either to melancholia or to hallucinatory states of excitement, resembling the deliria of exhaustion or inanition.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various

During Luther's life and afterwards I rejected these Stoic and Manichean deliria, when Luther and others wrote: All works, good and bad, in all men, good and bad, must occur as they do.

From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente

Critics called the product’s most notable side effect “delirium” and warned that these deliriums could have catastrophic effects on children, the elderly, or the immunocompromised.

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2021

Is this the book that launched a thousand quips, and stirred the orators to deliriums of denunciation?

From Time Magazine Archive

On the evening of the second day, the girl—the one who Goddard said was so important—came into his room in between deliriums.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

Phrensies, deliriums, vigilation, idiotism, apoplexies, and other disorders of the brain, are all produced by the nerves being thus disarranged and debilitated.

From A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves by Hugh Smith

Dos’t hear? or sporting in my brain, What wildly-sweet deliriums reign!

From An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients by Wallace Jackson