خُلَاعٌ خلاع (assumed tropical:) An affection resembling what is termed خَبَلٌ [q. v.], (K, TA,) and insanity, or diabolical possession, (TA,) which befalls a man: (K, TA:) or weakness, and fear or fright: (TA:) and ↓ خَوْلَعٌ and ↓ خَيْلَعٌ [in like manner] signify (tropical:) fear, or fright, affecting the heart, (S, K, TA,) occasioning evil imagination, and weakness, (TA.) as though it were a touch of insanity, or of diabolical possession, (S, K, TA,) in a man, and in the heart. (S.)
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