‖ vesania Path.
(vɪˈseɪnɪə)
[L. vēsānia, f. vēsānus mad, f. vē- not + sānus sane.]
Mental derangement, esp. of a particular type (see quot. 1857).
| [1693 tr. Blancard's Phys. Dict. (ed. 2), Vesania, Madness from Love. c 1793 Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XI. 282 Order IV. Vesaniæ.] 1800 tr. Cullen's Nosology 130 note, For who would consider..any other Hallucinatio or Morositas, which do not depend on the judgment, as a Vesania? 1820 Good Nosology 278 Parr..makes Vesania the genus, and arranges melancholia, mania, and even oneirodynia as separate species under it. 1857 Dunglison Dict. Med. Sci. 964/2 Vesania, madness; derangement of the intellectual and moral faculties, without coma or fever. |