Definition of Delusionary

1. Adjective. (psychology) Delusional. ¹

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Definition of Delusionary

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Delusionary

deluges
deluging
delundung
delusion
delusion of control
delusion of grandeur
delusion of negation
delusion of persecution
delusion of reference
delusional
delusional parasitosis
delusional powers or abilities
delusionally
delusionary (current term)
delusions
delusions of grandeur
delusions of persecution
delusive
delusively
delusiveness
delusivenesses
delusory
deluster
delustered
delustering
delusters
delustre
deluxe

Literary usage of Delusionary

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lectures on clinical psychiatry by Emil Kraepelin (1904)
"As it would appear, they have already existed for over twenty years in approximately the same form, and have, in their turn, continually led to delusionary ..."

2. The Lancet-clinic by Mississippi Valley Medical Association, Ohio Valley Medical Association (1908)
"Now, in regard to pain and fatigue, like their phobias, they are usually delusionary. (DR. PATRICK protested against this statement.) DR. ..."

3. Occult Crime: A Law Enforcement Primer by Diane Publishing Co (1993)
"Proponents of the delusionary theory believe those who claim to have survived Satanic ritualized abuse are really disturbed, delusionary people who adopted ..."

4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1897)
"... Pathological Institute of the Central Indiana Hospital for the 58 Insane—Thyroid Feeding in the 50 Insanity — A Case of Tabes Dorsalis with delusionary. ..."

5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1914)
"... and find the delusionary, hallucinatory or what not basis. 3. The Toxic and Exhaustion Psychosis.—The conclusion is reached that the peripheral ..."

6. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"... school knowledge may be tolerably well preserved; the memory plexus, although in parts distorted and shot through by veins or delusionary eruptions, ..."

7. Report. by Henry Phipps Institute (1906)
"There were two cases of real delusionary insanity, but in neither of these was tuberculosis discovered. As Dr. McCarthy has discussed the types of insanity ..."

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