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Definition of Hallucinate

1. Verb. Perceive what is not there; have illusions.

Definition of Hallucinate

1. v. i. To wander; to go astray; to err; to blunder; -- used of mental processes.

Definition of Hallucinate

1. Verb. To imagine and dream unreal things. To have visions; To experience a hallucination. ¹

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Definition of Hallucinate

1. [v -NATED, -NATING, -NATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hallucinate

Literary usage of Hallucinate

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

1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Plural of hallux. hallucinate (ha-lu'si-nat), v. ; prêt, and pp. hallucinated, ... [< hallucinate + -ory.~\ Partaking of or producing hallucination. ..."

2. The Subconscious Self and Its Relation to Education and Health by Louis Waldstein (1897)
"... who, after having regained complete mental health, could be made to hallucinate almost at will or when under the effect of certain drugs. ..."

3. 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 (1913)
"Where the sensory defect is not sufficiently gross to abolish the threshold, persistence, irregularity of response and a tendency to hallucinate may still ..."

4. Studies in Literature by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1918)
"... the dream of winning all things by substituting evil for good, has lost its power to hallucinate the intellect, even the strong intellect. ..."

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