American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1

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Author: Noah Webster

Hallucination

HALLUCINA’TION, n. [L.hallucinatio, from hallucinor, to blunder.]

1. Error; blunder; mistake. [Little used.]

2. In medicine, faulty sense [dysaesthesia,] or erroneous imagination. Hallucinations of the senses, arise from some defect in the organs of sense, or from some unusual circumstances attending the object, as when it is seen by moonlight; and they are sometimes symptoms of general disease, as in fevers. Maniacal hallucinations arise from some imaginary or mistaken idea. Similar hallucinations occur in revery.

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Chicago: Noah Webster Jr., "Hallucination," American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1 in An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1 (New York: S. Converse, 1828), Original Sources, accessed October 2, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GZTEYYMV168N31R.

MLA: Webster, Noah, Jr. "Hallucination." American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1, in An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1, New York, S. Converse, 1828, Original Sources. 2 Oct. 2023. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GZTEYYMV168N31R.

Harvard: Webster, N, 'Hallucination' in American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1. cited in 1828, An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1, S. Converse, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 2 October 2023, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GZTEYYMV168N31R.