In time the quest was given up, and men regarded it as one of the delusions which came to an end in the sixteenth century.
When this country had few newspapers it was ten times more the prey of false reports and delusions than it is now.
But it is not easy to name an age that has cherished more delusions than ours, or been more superstitious, or more credulous, more eager to run after quackery.
How many delusions has it seen dispelled, and fallacies exposed; how many pretensions levelled, and expectations blasted; how many reputations withered, and iniquities detected!
I tell you plainly what I think of your conduct, so that no delusions may exist between us.
There is a period," said Astraea, "in all our lives when we pass through delusions which an enlarged experience dispels.
Men are apt enough of themselves to fall into the most astonishing delusionsabout the opportunities which time affords, but they are even more deluded by the talk of the people about them.
We must dispel the delusionsand darkness which envelop it.
Delusions that he is being poisoned or insulted are often the cause of the murders committed by this type of lunatic.
And divers delusionshave always stood before men, hemming in this path, and having for their object to demonstrate to them, that it was not necessary to do this, and that it was not necessary to live as they were living.
Koppen considered that the patient believed his own stories about his rather superior education and that in general his lies became delusions which influenced his actions.
Lies mixed with delusions Literary composition in certain cases, see Language ability Lying, relation of, to delinquency Marie M.
Delbruck from this case argues that a mixture of lies and delusions is possible, comparing such a state with dreaming and with the hypnotic condition in which one follows the suggestion of the hypnotizer and is still aware of the fact.
He considered that this case offered a good illustration of the peculiar coexistence of real lies and delusions in the same individual.
Judgment, to this observer, seemed impaired, although no definite delusions could be elicited.
Upon the conduct of radicals and conservatives alike, this persistent belief, one of those delusionswhich often change the course of history, exercised, indeed, a decisive influence.
In the world of sense, facts are not altered by human delusions about them; it is therefore possible to correct a delusion by unprejudiced observation of facts.
The precautions to be taken during schooling, in order that the student may not fall a victim to such delusions will be dealt with in the following pages.
He may also feel sure that the application of this law provides just as effectually against delusions in the spiritual world as does the knowledge in the physical world that an imaginary piece of red-hot iron cannot burn him.
The less heed we pay to this necessary sequence of events the less we are able to distinguish between actual, spiritual perception and the delusions of fancy (illusion, hallucination, etc.
Four cases are morbid to a considerable degree; the remaining case has had insane delusions which required treatment in an asylum.
You have seen the practices by which the public servants have been able to cover their conduct, or, where that could not be done, delusions by which they have varnished it for the eye of their constituents.
I was, as I told you, at one time the dupe of his acted insanity, and clung to the former delusionsin regard to the motives that concerned me personally, till the whole system was laid bare.
While visions are quite common, delusionsof the other senses are less frequent.
These, he believed, dwelt in the air, and by disturbing the atmosphere with evil intent, produced illness in the system and delusions in the mind.
Thus only can we hope to counteract their mischievous tendency, and to prevent still stronger delusions from obtaining a mastery over weak minds.
A patient with delusionsof persecution writhes because he is being "electrified.
I have seen the same phenomenon in another woman, forty-six years of age, afflicted with fixed and systematised delusions of persecution.
All these gestures and stratagems may be considered as manifestations of ideas of defence, comparable to what obtains among those afflicted with obsessions and delusions of persecution.
But those to whom we have so far referred, were well acquainted with astronomy, and erred only in superadding the delusions of astrology to the truths of that real science.
There are here none of those specious delusions that look like virtues, to veil either the governed or the governor.
For, my Lords, if any circumstance of weakness, if any feebleness of nerve, if any yielding to weak and popular opinions and delusions were to shake us, consider what the situation of this country would be.
The delusions which a solitary education and limited acquaintance with the modern world had spread around me, are gone and dissipated for ever.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "delusions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
