delirifacient

From delirium + Latin faciens, facientis, present participle of facere (“to make”).

delirifacient (comparative more delirifacient, superlative most delirifacient)

1. (medicine, archaic) Producing, or tending to produce, delirium.

   Synonym: deliriant

delirifacient (plural delirifacients)

1. (medicine, archaic) Any substance that causes delirium.

   Synonym: deliriant

   • 1921, Margaret Alice Murray, The Witch-Cult in Western Europe, Appendix 5:

     Irregular action of the heart in a person falling asleep produces the well-known sensation of suddenly falling through space, and it seems quite possible that the combination of a delirifacient like belladonna with a drug producing irregular action of the heart like aconite might produce the sensation of flying.

• “delirifacient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.