All 23 Uses of
delirium
in
The Idiot
- I was in a high fever when I got to Pskoff, and by nightfall I was lying delirious in the streets somewhere or other!†
Chpt 1.1
- Marie lay in a state of uncomfortable delirium the whole while; she coughed dreadfully.†
Chpt 1.6
- It was not in the least surprising that Rogojin should be, at this time, in a more or less delirious condition; for not to speak of the excitements of the day, he had spent the night before in the train, and had not slept more than a wink for forty-eight hours.†
Chpt 1.15
- You are delirious.†
Chpt 1.15
- Oh, you were raving, you were in a fever; you are still half delirious.†
Chpt 1.16
- As for your wish to go with Rogojin, that was simply the idea of a delirious and suffering brain.†
Chpt 1.16
- Why, she always acts as though she were in a delirium now-a-days!†
Chpt 2.3
- A knife made to a special pattern, and six people killed in a kind of delirium.†
Chpt 2.5
- And, for a few warm, hasty words spoken in Moscow, Parfen had called him "brother," while he—but no, this was delirium!†
Chpt 2.5
- "Two minutes more, if you please, dear Ivan Fedorovitch," said Lizabetha Prokofievna to her husband; "it seems to me that he is in a fever and delirious; you can see by his eyes what a state he is in; it is impossible to let him go back to Petersburg tonight.†
Chpt 2.10
- He evidently had sudden fits of returning animation, when he awoke from his semi-delirium; then, recovering full self-possession for a few moments, he would speak, in disconnected phrases which had perhaps haunted him for a long while on his bed of suffering, during weary, sleepless nights.†
Chpt 2.10
- You are delirious—†
Chpt 2.10 *
- I was delirious, do not dare to triumph!†
Chpt 2.10
- I tell you again, I consider all that has passed a delirium, an insane dream.†
Chpt 3.3
- "He's either mad or delirious," murmured Rogojin.†
Chpt 3.5
- I wish to verify the working of the natural logic of my ideas tomorrow during the reading—whether I am capable of detecting logical errors, and whether all that I have meditated over during the last six months be true, or nothing but delirium.†
Chpt 3.5
- Besides, I had felt ill since the morning; and by evening I was so weak that I took to my bed, and was in high fever at intervals, and even delirious.†
Chpt 3.6
- I thought of all this by snatches probably between my attacks of delirium—for an hour and a half or so before Colia's departure.†
Chpt 3.6
- I did not for a moment suspect that I was delirious and that this Rogojin was but the result of fever and excitement.†
Chpt 3.6
- There was much more of this delirious wandering in the letters—one of them was very long.†
Chpt 3.10
- Stupid @ bosh it was—written in delirium.†
Chpt 4.5
- On this particular night, while in semi-delirium, he had an idea: what if on the morrow he were to have a fit before everybody?†
Chpt 4.6
- That he always HAD felt this he was ready to swear, although he was half delirious at the moment.†
Chpt 4.8
Definition:
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(delirium as in: fever induced delirium) a usually brief state of mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinationseditor's notes: Delirium can result from high fever, intoxication, withdrawal, brain injury, and many other causes.