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delirant

delirant adjective: delirious.

Adjective

delirant (comparative more delirant, superlative most delirant)

  1. (obsolete) Delirious.
    • Some that are so esteemed indeed, never pretended unto any sobriety, but were meer effects of delirant imaginations1679, John Owen, edited by Nathaniel Ponder, Christologia: Or, a Declaration of the Glorious Mystery of the Person of Christ, page xi
    • […]delirant in that business1673, Richard Baxter, A Christian Directory

Forms of delirant

comparativemore delirant
superlativemost delirant

Origin of delirant

From Latin dēlīrantis, present participle of dēlīrō. See delirium.

Words formed from delirant

  • delirancy noun

Questions about delirant

What does delirant mean?
Delirant means delirious.
What part of speech is delirant?
Delirant is an adjective.

Words near delirant in the dictionary

  1. deliquiums
  2. deliracy
  3. delirament
  4. deliraments
  5. delirancy
  6. delirant
  7. delirate
  8. delirates
  9. delirating
  10. deliration
  11. delirations

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