Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Tending to produce delirium.
  • noun In medicine, a substance which tends to produce delirium.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Med.) Producing, or tending to produce, delirium.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective medicine Producing, or tending to produce, delirium.
  • noun medicine Any substance that tends to cause delirium.

Etymologies

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delirium + Latin faciens, facientis, present participle of facere to make.

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Examples

  • Irregular action of the heart in a person falling asleep produces the well-known sensation of suddenly falling through space, and it seems quite possible that the combination of a delirifacient like belladonna with a drug producing irregular action of the heart like aconite might produce the sensation of flying.

    The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

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