Definition of "deliquium" []

• Liquefaction through absorption of moisture from the air (noun)
• An abrupt loss of consciousness usually caused by an insufficient blood flow to the brain; fainting. (noun)
• (figuratively) a languid, maudlin mood (noun)
• An abrupt absence of sunlight, e.g. caused by an eclipse (noun)

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• "There is a kind of deliquium of the spirits, called swooning away, that may befall believers, which suspends all acts of life, when yet the man is not dead."
• "In the female flux (immoderate menstruation?), if convulsion and deliquium come on, it is bad."
• "And when proper to carry the evacuation to deliquium animi, this also should be done, provided the patient can support it."