קוּרְדְּיָיקוֹס, (καρδιακός) delirious; (sub. חולי) delirium. [This meaning of καρδιακός is not recorded in dictionaries.] Gitt. VII, 1 מי שאחזו ק׳ וכ׳ one who was seized with delirium and said, Give my wife a letter of divorce &c.; אמר … אחזו ק׳ וכ׳ if he said, Write &c., and then in a state of delirium said, Do not write &c. Y. ib. 48ᶜ (expl. הָמִים). Ib. ק׳ שאמרו חכמים פעמים וכ׳ the kardiakos of whom the scholars speak, is one who is at times sane and at times insane; Y. Ter. I, 40ᵇ קונדייקוס (corr. acc.). Ib. קונדיקוס ק׳ (strike out קונדיקוס, as a corrupt dittography). Gitt. 67ᵇ (expl. our w.) דנכתיה חמרא וכ׳ one whom new wine from the pit has bitten (given delirium tremens); הא קמ"ל דהא רוחא ק׳ שמיה the Mishnah, in using that word, intended to teach incidentally that that demon (disease) is named k.